Reporting laws regarding clergy are legally set up state by state not consistent through all 50 states. That is why the work to get all 50 states to have clergy report plus the application of the first amendment as well.
If you live in the US and want to make every state require clergy reporting, check your state and see what the law is and if it is totally comprehensive in requiring clergy to report.
Secular society would say there is no choice: pedophiles should be stopped and children protected at all costs. But it's a dilemma that has dogged some religious denominations for a while. Where penitent-clergy privilege is not protected by law, is a minister's loyalty still to his confessor? The question is complicated by the fact that there is no legal uniformity across the U.S.; in some states, the law is gray at best. In Virginia, for example, the confession box is sacrosanct and a priest is not compelled to report a child abuser. In Texas, meanwhile, the clergy is offered no such privilege .