Checking system for social networking websites

The Attorney General shall establish and maintain a secure system that permits social networking websites to compare the information contained in the National Sex Offender Registry with the Internet identifiers of users of the social networking websites, and view only those Internet identifiers that match. The system— Upon receiving a matched Internet identifier, the social networking website may make a request of the Attorney General for, and the Attorney General shall provide promptly, information related to the identity of the individual that has registered the matched Internet identifier. This information is limited to the name, sex, resident address, photograph, and physical description. A social networking website seeking to use the system shall submit an application to the Attorney General which provides— a description of policies and procedures to ensure that— such other information or attestations as the Attorney General may require to ensure that the website will use the system— A social networking website approved by the Attorney General to use the system may conduct searches under the system as frequently as the Attorney General may allow. The Attorney General may deny, suspend, or terminate use of the system by a social networking website that— Neither the Attorney General nor a social networking website approved to use the system may release to the public any list of the Internet identifiers of sex offenders contained in the system. The Attorney General shall limit the release of information obtained through the use of the system established under subsection (a) by social networking websites approved to use such system. The use of the system established under subsection (a) by a social networking website shall be conditioned on the website’s agreement to observe the limitations required under this paragraph. This subsection shall not be construed to limit the authority of the Attorney General under any other provision of law to conduct or to allow searches or checks against sex offender registration information. A social networking website approved to use the system shall pay any fee established by the Attorney General for use of the system. A civil claim against a social networking website, including any director, officer, employee, parent, contractor, or agent of that social networking website, arising from the use by such website of the National Sex Offender Registry, may not be brought in any Federal or State court. Subparagraph (A) does not apply to a claim if the social networking website, or a director, officer, employee, parent, contractor, or agent of that social networking website— acted, or failed to act— A social networking website shall minimize the number of employees that are provided access to the Internet identifiers for which a match has been found through the system. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any Internet website, including a social networking website, to use the system, and no Federal or State liability, or any other actionable adverse consequence, shall be imposed on such website based on its decision not to do so.