MySpace wrongly labels Jessica Davis as a Sex offender…

Recently, MySpace purged thousands of profiles believed to be owned by registered sex offenders. One of the profiles belonged to Jessica Davis, a college senior at the University of Colorado. But… Jessica is not a registered sex offender, nor has she ever been convicted of any crime that comes close. The biggest thing she has even been convicted for was a driving offence in Florida.

It  took nearly a week for Jessica Davis to get an explanation about why MySpace had labeled her a sex offender and pulled her profile from the social networking Web site.When her name was cleared, it wasn’t because of anything MySpace did.

Davis initially contacted ABC News Tuesday after reading a story on ABCNEWS.com about an agreement reached between MySpace and a group of state attorneys general to share information from a database MySpace had built to prevent sex offenders from keeping online profiles. 

This was particularly troubling: First, she'd been falsely labeled by MySpace as a sex offender; now, the state of Colorado would have access to that designation. MySpace hired Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to gain access to the Miami-based security company's specialized sex offender database late last year.

While Sentinel CEO John Cardillo has come to her defense, MySpace has yet to apologize, or even contact her directly short of “form emails.”

"The Jessica Davis in question is absolutely not a sex offender," Cardillo told ABCNEWS.com, explaining that beyond sharing a similar and common name, Jessica Davis the non-sex offender and Jessica Dawn Davis the sex offender also had birthdays two days off as well as two years off and had lived in Florida at roughly the same time.

"I do want to hear from them," Davis said. "I want them to publicly admit that they messed up."

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