Most states will have some level of funding available for schools, and state agency websites are a great resource for finding lists of available physical security grants. When applying for state grants, it’s important for schools to look at the requirements. In addition to conducting audits, many states have specific parameters for how schools can use...Read More

The state of New Jersey has filed suit against Discord claiming the company engaged in “deceptive and unconscionable business practices” that put children at risk. The suit was filed Thursday and alleges the popular messaging app of not doing enough to keep its youngest users safe from predators and violent content. Here’s a link to...Read More

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that federal agents arrested two alleged ringleaders of “764” last week, a violent online network accused of targeting children through social media and gaming platforms. In a statement posted Tuesday on X, Patel said the FBI is “cracking down hard” on the group, describing it as a federal law enforcement...Read More

CABARRUS COUNTY, N.C. — Online predators are targeting children every day in the United States — Channel 9 got an inside look with an undercover operation to find these predators, and it turned out that we didn’t have to go far to find adults accused of soliciting children online. Our team followed Cabarrus County deputies...Read More

A sexual predator was recently sentenced in a Grundy County court case. Lawrence Raibley, 62, pled guilty to Failing To Register as a Sex Offender, a class three felony and was sentenced to two years of probation. Raibley failed to register as a sex offender with the Morris Police Department on August 13th of 2024....Read More

MILWAUKEE — A nationwide effort to track and arrest online child predators leads to two arrests in Wisconsin. The Department of Justice said Wednesday Operation Restore Justice, a coordinated enforcement effort to identify, track and arrest child sex predators, resulted in the rescue of 115 children and the arrests of 205 child sexual abuse offenders...Read More

An online sexual predator who used computer games to groom and abuse a vulnerable 11-year-old boy has been jailed. Christopher Collinge, now aged 33, used a mutual love of computer games to befriend the boy, before bribing him with to share explicit images in return for credits to his PlayStation account. Collinge was exposed when...Read More

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Emily Juarez no longer feels safe letting her two older children ride public transportation or walk to their LA Unified school after an increase in reports of violence near district campuses. “I stopped maybe a couple of weeks ago,” Juarez...Read More

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the primary U.S. nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation, said Friday that it is removing all references to transgender people from its public materials. The move is in accordance with an executive order President Trump signed last week, which bars federal funding that goes to “gender ideology”...Read More

Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 205 alleged child sex predators who preyed on children online have been arrested in the last five days. The arrests are part of a new joint operation by the Justice Department and FBI called “Operation Restore Justice,” which saw 115 children across the...Read More