ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – Law enforcement agencies across the country are warning parents about a viral social media trend involving unsettling, AI-generated images of “The Cat in the Hat,” sometimes paired with threatening captions aimed at schools, students and specific locations. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office (SJSO) said it is aware of the...Read More
Tuesday, 8 September 2026, 1:03 pmArticle: Gordon Campbell If political science really was a science, and the people in lab coats tried to create the perfect political issue in the lab, the end result would look a lot like the R16 social media ban. Checklist: such a ban enables politicians to hold hands with worried...Read More
Monday, September 7, 2026 10:30PM Setting screen-time limits with your kids can be a tall task, but parents are finding ways to bond with their teens using social media. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Setting screen-time limits with your kids can be a tall task, but parents are finding ways to bond with their teens using...Read More
Montessori Academy has brought together more than 25 years of child safety practice under its Seven-Pillar Safety System, uniting the safeguards, practices, systems and accountabilities developed and strengthened across the organisation over that time. The framework provides one clear, shared approach to child safety across more than 70 services in New South Wales, Victoria and...Read More
The Centre will ask Meta, the owner of Facebook, whether it will introduce locally new features for child safety that have been mandated as part of a US-based settlement, officials said.The move seeks to ensure Meta is securing the wellbeing of minors online in India as effectively as it does in other countries, they explained....Read More
Robert Pattinson‘s performance as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen is earning strong reviews. A24‘s Primetime, which premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival to a nearly eight-minute standing ovation, holds a 93 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film will be released in theaters Sept. 25. Directed by Lance Oppenheim, Primetime follows Pattinson as...Read More
CALIFORNIA—On Friday, September 4, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced that Calvin Lane was out of custody on reduced bail when he absconded before closing arguments last week at his trial for sex trafficking a young woman and a teenage girl in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Dijon O’Neal, a convicted violent sex...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since 2019, As You Sow and allied investors have filed resolutions on child safety and content governance documenting the exact risks that produced this week’s record settlement. MEDIA CONTACT: Ryon Harms, [email protected], (310) 730-9407 EL CERRITO, CALIFORNIA — August 27, 2026 — Meta Platforms has agreed to pay over $17 billion, adding to...Read More
A felony charge was recently filed against a sexual predator in Grundy County. Daniel Klepk, 39, of Morris was recently indicted by a Grundy County grand jury on the charge of Failing To Register as a sex offender, a class three felony. Klepk is accused of failing to register as a sex offender in Morris....Read More
A 40-year-old Crab Orchard man has been arrested by the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office after he reportedly attempted to meet a 14-year-old in Somerset for sex. A PCSO press release stated that Raquel Gomez-Lopez was arrested and charged with Unlawful Procurement of a Minor by Electronic Means and first-degree Attempted Unlawful Transaction with a Minor....Read More
