SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) – Educators and emergency personnel from across the state are gathered at the Savannah Convention Center to collaborate and discuss school safety in Georgia. Over the next two days, attendees, including teachers, administrators and school resource officers, will receive training to help keep students safe in the upcoming school year. The conference...Read More
Adrian McVay Shanklin (PCSD file photo) By Patti Weaver STILLWATER — For the third time, a convicted child molester has been charged with failure to register as a sex offender with law enforcement. This time, Adrian Feliciano McVay-Shanklin, 34, listed as homeless from Cushing, has also been charged with living in a hotel...Read More
MUMBAI: Britain is drawing a sharper line in the digital sand, telling technology giants that when it comes to children’s online safety, the clock is now ticking. Speaking at London Tech Week, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged major technology companies to introduce stronger safeguards that prevent minors from sending, receiving or sharing sexually explicit...Read More
The former West Ham joint chairman David Sullivan once described himself as a “collector of women, like some people collect stamps”. “I can have up to three a day but some days I don’t have any – it depends how I feel and what else is happening,” he told a newspaper interviewer in 1989. “I...Read More
Ram Charan is basking in the success of his latest sports action drama, ‘Peddi’ directed by Buchi Babu Sana and co-starring Jahnvi Kapoor. The actor along with the director recently surprised fans by visiting a theatre where the film was being screened. As soon as he arrived, fans cheered and welcomed him with loud chants...Read More
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It’s time to take a deep breath when it comes to teen sexting. It is an issue but it’s not an epidemic and, in most cases, when it happens it doesn’t result in anything terrible. I’m sure you’ve read the stories about the “sexting scandal” in Cañon City, Colorado, or perhaps you saw that Atlantic cover...Read More
The UK government has issued a warning to technology giants including Apple and Google, giving them three months to activate built-in safeguards on smartphones and tablets that can detect and block nude images from being viewed, shared or created by children — or face legislation compelling them to do so. The move, announced by the...Read More
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting...Read More
Lawmakers on the final day of the General Assembly passed a bill to regulate how minors interact with social media and other online platforms to make them less addictive. The goal of House Bill 5511, the Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act, is to prevent children under the age of 18 from being exposed to harmful...Read More
