Chris Kelly, the chief privacy officer for Facebook, is apparently set to announce his candidacy for attorney general, according to TechCrunch, a Silicon Valley blog.
Kelly would be the fourth Democrat to get into the race, after San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, former Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, and Torrance's own Assemblyman Ted Lieu. (All of this is contingent on the expectation that Jerry Brown will run for governor in 2010.)
Kelly is a lawyer and a former Clinton White House official, but he is best known as the guy who tries to keep child molesters off of Facebook. Earlier this year, he entered into an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to institute a series of measures to prevent adults from soliciting minors on the site. (The holdout: Texas.)
Lieu also plans to run on his record of cracking down on sex offenders. In 2006, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 1900, a Lieu bill that made it illegal for sex offenders who are independent contractors to employ children or work around them. The classic example: no more sex-offender Santas.
Kelly would be the fourth Democrat to get into the race, after San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, former Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, and Torrance's own Assemblyman Ted Lieu. (All of this is contingent on the expectation that Jerry Brown will run for governor in 2010.)
Kelly is a lawyer and a former Clinton White House official, but he is best known as the guy who tries to keep child molesters off of Facebook. Earlier this year, he entered into an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to institute a series of measures to prevent adults from soliciting minors on the site. (The holdout: Texas.)
Lieu also plans to run on his record of cracking down on sex offenders. In 2006, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 1900, a Lieu bill that made it illegal for sex offenders who are independent contractors to employ children or work around them. The classic example: no more sex-offender Santas.
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