Attorneys general from eight states have come forward to ask MySpace to turn over information about its users and ban anyone who is discovered to be a registered sexual offender.

Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are all in the effort to make Myspace safer for children. The legal representatives from the eight states want to know what the site is doing to identify and prevent predators from creating bogus accounts.

"MySpace is a treasure-trove of potential victims for child predators. Sex offenders have no business being on this site, and we believe MySpace has a responsibility to get them off the site," said North Carolina AG Roy Cooper in a Computerworld quote.

The publication also quoted Myspace's chief security officer as saying, "We agree with the attorneys general that keeping bad people out of good places on the Internet is a challenge and a priority."

The site is still fine-tuning an automatic cross-referencing system that helps determine if a registering user is a registered offender. The social networking site has been under fire for over a year because of incidents that have occurred from adults masked as children meeting other children online and then tracking them down in real life.