Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Once again, a rise in school shootings has led to heightened awareness, and increased attention to school safety and violence prevention — this time for the 2023-24 school year. While 2022 saw an unprecedented number of school shootings,...Read More
New child safety protocols have come to Roblox, and parents now have greater insight into what their kids are doing on the creation platform. As part of the new reforms, parents can access parental control features from their own devices, rather than needing their child’s to do it. They can now link their accounts to...Read More
Schools should be places where our kids feel safe, learn about themselves and their communities, and get the support they need to discover and pursue their passions. We must work together as a community to ensure the safety of our kids as they head back to school this fall. If one child feels unsafe, it...Read More
NDIANAPOLIS—In an effort to curb unauthorized traffic to adult websites within the state, Indiana lawmakers passed new legislation Thursday requiring all potential viewers of online pornography to register as sex offenders before they could access sexually explicit material. “This law will ensure that no resident of Indiana encounters harmful, X-rated content on the internet without...Read More
Five people were arrested Thursday when the Washington County Sheriff’s Office conducted a child predator sting. Investigators posed as children on dating apps, social media sites and other places online. People offered to meet up for sex with these fake profiles who they believed to be a child. When the people showed up to the...Read More
Attorney General James Uthmeier is issuing a subpoena to Roblox, the massive online platform where users play and create games and socialize. The order demands information about the San Mateo, California-based company’s marketing practices toward children, age-verification methods and chat room moderation policies. Uthmeier’s action comes amid growing concerns about the potential exposure of young...Read More
As we welcome our students back into classrooms, I’m filled with optimism for students’ growth and learning. At the same time, we face a painful reality that students can’t thrive at school unless their basic need for safety is met. In my role as a school board member at Aurora Public Schools, I’ve seen the...Read More
The LCSO made tenth arrest connected to internet chat operation. Kyle James Ross Bulton also known as Kyle James Ross Ball 30 of Washington DC was arrested and charged with two counts of “use of a communication device to facilitate certain offenses involved children” This arrest concludes the undercover internet chat operation that took place...Read More
DETROIT — A Michigan man who was captured last fall after the roll out of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Operation Predator smartphone app was sentenced Monday to 97 months in prison. Mark Robert Austin, 49, was arrested Sept. 13, 2013, without incident by HSI and FBI special agents along...Read More
Hyderabad:Hyderabad cybercrime police arrested Kuna Dharma Rao, 25, of Srikakulam, for creating fake social media profiles, harassing a woman entrepreneur and operating a fraudulent website offering fake dating services. He used fake social media accounts to contact a Hyderabad-based woman who runs an business on YouTube. After she refused to meet him despite repeated requests,...Read More
