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WASHINGTON - A national sex offender database has been named for slain 
University of North Dakota<http://www.examiner.com/Topic-North_Dakota.html> 
student Dru Sjodin (shuh-DEEN').


The Justice Department announced today the designation of the Dru Sjodin 
National Sex Offender Public Web Site. The site provides information about 
sex offenders throughout the country.

Sjodin's mother, Linda Walker, spent the last two years lobbying 
congress<http://www.examiner.com/Topic-Congress.html> to pass a bill that 
included the database. That portion of the bill is known as "Dru's Law."

The 22-year-old Sjodin, from Pequot (PEE'-kwaht) Lakes, Minnesota, 
disappeared from a Grand Forks mall parking lot nearly three years ago. Her 
body was later found near Crookston, Minnesota. A federal jury found 
convicted sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez Junior guilty of the crime and 
sentenced him to death.

The Web site can be found at http://www.nsopr.gov<http://www.nsopr.gov/>