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 has...Read More

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 realize...Read More

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 of...Read More

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 2019...Read More

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 what...Read More

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 the...Read More

The school safety and security sector, valued between two and three billion dollars, remains largely unregulated despite increased funding since 2018. (Funding for school security often increases after a major tragedy.) A school is lucky if it has a dedicated safety director with the experience to assess and prioritize needs as they sift through the...Read More

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes “to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited for the AI era.” The organization plans on providing free, open-source safety tools to public and private organizations to use on their own platforms, with a special focus on...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation tracked down and arrested more than 200 people accused of sex crimes involving children during a five-day operation, officials announced Wednesday. What You Need To Know The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation teamed up to track down and arrest...Read More

The busy halls of North Community High School in Minneapolis in between classes. Caroline Yang for NPR hide caption toggle caption Caroline Yang for NPR The busy halls of North Community High School in Minneapolis in between classes. Caroline Yang for NPR The students at North Community High School in Minneapolis have seen a lot....Read More