ATLANTA (AP)-- Attorneys for a convicted sex offender are urging a federal judge to block a new Georgia law that requires sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses to law enforcement officials.

Attorneys for Terrence White told the judge Tuesday the law is too broad and infringes on White's constitutional rights.

State attorneys say the new requirements give authorities another tool to keep registered sex offenders from striking again.

The law took effect in January and made Georgia one of a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track Internet addresses of sex offenders.

But the state is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16,000 offenders to turn in their passwords as well.