The father of a Florida woman killed while acting as a police informant is seeking a law named for his daughter that would provide greater protection for young offenders who might be pressured into dangerous undercover work, the Tallahassee Democrat reported May 19.

Irv Hoffman, whose daughter, Rachel, 23, was murdered by a pair of drug dealers after agreeing to an undercover assignment in exchange for leniency on a drug charge, says the legislation would be called 'Rachel's Law.'

"I don't think kids should be doing police work," said Hoffman. "I am going to try to get a Rachel Law going so kids aren't used in this way."

Tallahassee Police had sent the recent college graduate to buy $13,000 worth of drugs and a gun from the dealers; she disappeared and was later found dead. "How do you send a kid in to do a deal like this?" said Mr. Hoffman. "Rachel was not an undercover police officer. This is not a civilian job."

"There are reasons she did what she did," said State Sen. Mike Fasano, whose district includes Hoffman's home town. "However, we don't want young people like her, who are naive to the risk they may be in, to be taken advantage of by any state agency."

"This is embarrassing to the city and this area that something of this nature would occur," said Tallahassee state Sen.  Al Lawson, who is poised to become the top Florida Senate Democratic leader. "I'm willing to do whatever I can make sure something like this doesn't happen again."