All the local news outlets carried the AP story:

WASHINGTON (AP) - A national sex offender database has been named for slain University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin.

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 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 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.

[National Sex Offender Public Registry]

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