Key points: With school-associated violence at a record high, there is an urgent responsibility for school leaders to protect the safety of students, teachers, and staff. As the 2023 – 2024 academic year concludes this spring, school leaders will have the opportunity to review safety protocols and adopt new tools to foster a safe and...Read More

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – More than 200 people are under arrest as part of an FBI-led nationwide crackdown on sex abuse offenders. The Department of Justice announced the FBI, with assistance from the Texas Department of Public Safety, arrested Angel Ramirez Flores in Lamesa. Flores is charged with Attempted Transfer of Obscene Material to Minors....Read More

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers said repeatedly that a student-tracking database had been removed from a school safety bill, but parts of that plan survive. The Senate and House gave final approval to House Bill 268 on Monday, sending the response to September’s deadly shooting at Apalachee High School to Gov. Brian Kemp for his...Read More

The Conservatives’ push for a new national grooming inquiry that would block the child safety bill is “absolutely sickening”, Bridget Phillipson has said. The education secretary said the opposition party’s plan to amend the government’s children wellbeing and schools bill on Wednesday, which she called the “single biggest piece of children safeguarding legislation in a...Read More

A nationwide sting has rescued 115 children from sex trafficking, leading to the arrest of more than 200 alleged child sex predators. The DOJ operation was carried out in coordination with local law enforcement in an effort to identify, track, and arrest child sex predators. The suspects who were arrested reportedly include an illegal immigrant...Read More

The next administration should continue to make responsible policy on Artificial intelligence (AI) and children, especially in K-12, a top priority and create an AI and Kids Initiative led by the administration. AI is transforming how children learn and live, and policymakers, industry, and educators owe it to the next generation to set in place...Read More

TAMPA, Fla. – A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School parent is hoping to make schools safer with new technology. It’s called the school safety dashboard and this week the organization released an updated version giving parents a comprehensive, one-stop shop tool to figure out how safe your child’s school is. “Alex was 14. He was...Read More

The Signal messaging app touts itself as a “state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption” that “keeps your conversations secure.” It adds, “we can’t read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either.” That’s true – to a point. The recent addition of a journalist to a private group chat about military strikes on...Read More

A serial sex predator manipulated, coerced and blackmailed more than a dozen young girls across the UK into sending him explicit images of themselves. Max Hollingsbee, 21, used his computer to target at least 13 children and one young woman with his victims living in Surrey, Sunderland, Doncaster and Scotland. Posing as a teenager called...Read More

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