Among the 30 convicted sex offenders arrested thus far by the Texas Attorney General's Fugitive and Cyber Crimes divisions, for purportedly accessing MySpace in violation of parole conditions, the latest arrest is that of Jesse Clay Scott of Seguin, Texas.

In a statement and videotaped news conference, the officials said that Scott - paroled last year after a five-and-a-half year jail term for sexually molesting a 15-year-old girl - had allegedly his cell phone as well as his PC to access his MySpace account.

Last month, MySpace was sent a written directive by the Connecticut Attorney General's office for disclosing the names of sex offenders. Scott's arrest came a day after MySpace gave away the names of 90,000 sex offenders.

The growing safety concerns about use of social networking sites, with such a vast number of registered sex offenders, have led Attorneys General declare that the sites are "not kid-safe."

Saying that the safety and security of MySpace users is the site's topmost priority, Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer of the News Corp.-owned social network said that all possible measures were being taken to keep sex offenders off the site. In Scott's case, his MySpace profile had been "removed and preserved."

Nigam said: "We employ a best of breed solution that we continue to improve on. We hope that the states quickly pass e-mail registration legislation so that offenders can be punished for providing false information online."