Editing Mark Foley (section)

===Actions in Congress===

====Legislation regarding pornography and sexual offenses====
In the House, Foley was one of the foremost opponents of [[child pornography]]. Foley had served as chairman of the [[House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children]]. He introduced a bill, coined the "Child Modeling Exploitation Prevention Act of 2002" to outlaw websites featuring sexually suggestive images of preteen children, saying that "these websites are nothing more than a fix for [[pedophile]]s." As it was written, the bill would have prohibited commercial photography of children and it failed due to the unmanageable burden it would have presented to the legitimate entertainment industry.<ref>Declan McCullagh, [https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,52379-0.html "Too Broad a Ban on Child Models?"], ''Wired'', May 9, 2002.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crstudent.com/School/Preteen.htm |title=Webe Web Fashion Models (A Cultural Analysis of Preteen Models at CSM Child Super Models) |publisher=CR Student.com |last=Thorne |first=Samuel |date=Summer 2004 |access-date=2006-10-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902003230/http://www.crstudent.com/School/Preteen.htm |archive-date=2006-09-02 }}</ref> In June 2003 he wrote letters to the governor and attorney general of Florida, asking them to review the legality of a program for teenagers of a Lake Como [[nudist resort]] in [[Land o' Lakes, Florida]].<ref>James Thorner, [http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/19/State/Nude_summer_youth_cam.shtml "Nude summer youth camps alarm lawmaker"], ''St. Petersburg Times'' (Florida), June 19, 2003.</ref>

Foley's legislation to change federal [[sex offender]] laws was supported by the [[National Center for Missing and Exploited Children]], ''[[America's Most Wanted]]'' host [[John Walsh (television host)|John Walsh]] and a number of victims' rights groups. President Bush signed it into law as part of the [[Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act]] of 2006.

Foley also succeeded in getting a law passed that allows volunteer youth-serving organizations like the [[Boy Scouts of America]] and [[Boys & Girls Clubs of America|Boys and Girls Clubs]] to have access to [[FBI]] fingerprint background checks.