Topeka ? Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison said a recent agreement with MySpace Web site to provide information on thousands of sex offenders is just one step in continuing efforts to monitor social networking on the Internet.

“We’re working on a couple of things with these providers,” Morrison said recently.

Last week, MySpace, under pressure from state attorneys general, turned over identifying information of sex offenders who had opened accounts with the service.

Once Morrison gets the information, he said he would turn it over to the Kansas agencies that handle probation and parole for possible prosecution.

“It’s a standard condition of probation or parole that if you are a registered sex offender that you not have anything to do with kids, and I suspect that being on MySpace.com in and of itself would be a violation of that,” he said.

But Morrison said efforts will continue to get more information from MySpace and other social networking groups to try to detect sexual predators who are using online sites to lure children. He also said law enforcement will be seeking ways to prevent children from signing up on these Web sites unless they have parental permission.

“A lot of parents feel kind of helpless,” Morrison said. “We’re trying to get them tools.”

He said he believed social networking sites will work with law enforcement officials because “they want to do the right thing” and they want to avoid states or the federal government adopting restrictive initiatives.

In last week’s decision, MySpace said it wanted to cooperate with law enforcement.

“We have zero tolerance for sexual predators on MySpace and took the initiative to create this first-of-its-kind tool ourselves because nothing previously existed,” Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace’s chief security officer, said in a statement.

“We look forward to working collaboratively with the attorneys general on all future efforts to make the Internet a safer place for teens,” Nigam said.

Nigam also said MySpace would ask states to require sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses so the group can prevent them getting an account.

In Kansas, a bill signed into law earlier this month by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius requires sex offenders to register with the state more often and provide more identifying information, such as e-mail addresses and online user names.

“We can do a better job monitoring offenders on the Internet and in our neighborhoods if we gather more information,” Morrison said.

Morrison said unfortunately offenders often use false names, but law enforcement hopes to be able to track them with other kinds of identifiers.