KOOTENAI COUNTY — A man convicted in Kootenai County’s largest child pornography case will face a parole hearing next week, prompting his own daughter to campaign for his continued imprisonment. Edmund Bergeman, who has served 20 years in an Arizona prison, is scheduled for a parole hearing on May 1. The Twin Lakes man pleaded...Read More

The Grayson County Sheriff’s Office is warning of an alarming trend involving teenagers sending nude photos and videos of themselves to other teens. GCSO said in a release Thursday that both their agency and the Leitchfield Police Department have recently been investigating numerous cases where nude photos of underage girls and boys are being shared...Read More

Roblox executives say its content restrictions are driving users to less-regulated corners of the internet.Source: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images Roblox Corp. is urging federal lawmakers to take notice of what it sees as one of the most persistent threats to child safety online: kids abandoning tightly moderated platforms to communicate elsewhere. Roblox’s own content...Read More

There are countless videos on social media of civilians confronting alleged child predators, but according to police, these videos could do more harm than good. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — You may have seen videos circulating online of civilians confronting alleged child predators. More and more of those videos have been popping up in Arkansas. However,...Read More

Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia released a letter it sent to members of the Virginia State Crime Commission recommending against any legislation to criminalize teenage sexting. Any such legislation would raise serious constitutional concerns and also result in feeding many more Virginia teens into the school-to-prison pipeline. The Crime Commission will meet...Read More

Image: DepositPhotos That child safety group advocating for AI age verification? They forgot to mention their sugar daddy. The Parents and Kids Safe AI Coalition has been pushing California’s Parents and Kids Safe AI Act requiring age verification for users under 18. According to San Francisco Standard reporting, the coalition was funded by OpenAI, with...Read More

    Victim’s decomposed and dismembered remains found in D4vd’s vehicle  LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced that musician David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, was charged today with murdering 14-year-old Celeste R., whose body was found decomposed and dismembered in his car that had been impounded in September...Read More

A Houston-based group known for confronting suspected online child predators across the country is drawing some concern from law enforcement after its latest operation in La Porte. The group, called “Predator Poachers,” was founded by Houston resident Alex Rosen in 2019. He said he launched the effort seven years ago to target what he calls...Read More

ALPENA, Mich. – Students from Alpena and Atlanta schools will spend their day on Tuesday, April 28 participating in a one day event designed to address a variety of issues related to preventing violence. The Youth Violence Prevention Summit is hosted by the MSP Office of School Safety. This one-day interactive forum offers high school students...Read More

YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat – they’re just a few of the banned social media sites for Australian teenagers under 16. But while the push to protect young people from too much screen time continues, a major Adelaide University study shows that a balanced approach to social media might not be so bad. In new research...Read More