[ad_1] The next administration should continue to make responsible policy on Artificial intelligence (AI) and children, especially in K-12, a top priority and create an AI and Kids Initiative led by the administration. AI is transforming how children learn and live, and policymakers, industry, and educators owe it to the next generation to set in...Read More

[ad_1] TAMPA, Fla. – A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School parent is hoping to make schools safer with new technology. It’s called the school safety dashboard and this week the organization released an updated version giving parents a comprehensive, one-stop shop tool to figure out how safe your child’s school is. “Alex was 14. He...Read More

[ad_1] The Signal messaging app touts itself as a “state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption” that “keeps your conversations secure.” It adds, “we can’t read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either.” That’s true – to a point. The recent addition of a journalist to a private group chat about military strikes...Read More

[ad_1] A serial sex predator manipulated, coerced and blackmailed more than a dozen young girls across the UK into sending him explicit images of themselves. Max Hollingsbee, 21, used his computer to target at least 13 children and one young woman with his victims living in Surrey, Sunderland, Doncaster and Scotland. Posing as a teenager...Read More

[ad_1] Legislation to set policies around school safety has languished for two years Critics, including Republicans, blame politics for the delays Democrats and school officials say the Legislature has done plenty, allocating hundreds of millions of dollars for safety LANSING — Legislation to improve school safety introduced after the mass shooting at Oxford High School...Read More

[ad_1] CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – On May 18, 2024, the unthinkable happened to Brandon Lynch’s family. “He was at a family pool and he was swimming with his cousins, went back inside and he snuck back out of door,” Lynch said. “Obviously, as a three year old [he] didn’t have the ability and didn’t...Read More

[ad_1] School mental health professionals, safety experts, and education leaders on Tuesday voiced support for five proposed bills that aim to prevent violence in Michigan schools, saying the measures could save lives. The bills, which come a year after the deadly mass shooting at Michigan State University and more than two years after the killings...Read More

[ad_1] A “dangerous predator” has been jailed for 12 years for raping and sexually assaulting a child in a “sickening” attack. Stuart Hand, 38, from Long Ashton, near Bristol, was found guilty of a string of sexual offences following a trial at Bristol Crown Court. Hand, 38, was driving in Pill, north Somerset, in February...Read More

[ad_1] Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take First introduced in 2022, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is a bipartisan bill purportedly designed to make the internet safer for minors, defined as anyone 16 and younger. Over the past two years, lawmakers, activists, and the media have wondered...Read More

[ad_1] Aurora Police Department officers arrested two suspects over the last two weeks after a multi-agency online child predator operation, the department said. APD’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit completed an operation that led to the arrest of 39-year-old Gregory Thomas Daniels and 68-year-old Ralph Edward Bledsoe, an airline pilot who allegedly “victimized minors throughout...Read More