Megan’s Law is named after Megan Kanka, a New Jersey girl who was raped and killed at age seven by a known registered sex offender who had moved across the street from the Kanka family without their knowledge. In the wake of the tragedy, the Kankas sought to have local communities warned about sex offenders in the area and on May 17, 1996, President Clinton signed Megan’s Law. Now there is a national sex offender registry.