North Carolina General Assembly RALEIGH, NC (WWAY) — The North Carolina House has unanimously approved the Dominque Moody Safety Act (SB 280), a sweeping child welfare reform measure designed to strengthen oversight, improve accountability, and increase transparency within the state’s child protective services system. The legislation is named in honor of Dominique Moody, a 6-year-old...Read More
A Monterey County sheriff’s deputy assists with dismantling unsafe or recalled car seats to promote child passenger safety during the event. (Courtesy of MCSO) KING CITY — Families received hands-on safety checks May 31 during a Car Seat Check Event hosted by the Monterey County Health Department and Mee Memorial Healthcare System in King City....Read More
Meta Platforms has proposed legal protections that would limit certain child-safety related lawsuits against online platforms as discussions continue around the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) in the United States, according to an exclusive Reuters report citing a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language. The proposal comes as Meta faces thousands of...Read More
Parents today spend a huge chunk of time worrying about their kids’ online safety. How much social media access is enough to connect with friends, but not so much it becomes addicting? Is their phone making it easier to get help when they are feeling stressed, or driving them away from human connection? So when...Read More
Around 400 Year 6 pupils from ten primary schools engaged in interactive workshops, all part of the ‘Junior Citizen’ scheme. The initiative, held at Weymouth Football Club, aimed to cover areas like railway safety, first aid, anti-social behaviour, health and wellbeing, online conduct, and water safety. The workshops, led by professionals from various agencies including...Read More
A new documentary set for release Friday, June 19, will revisit the 2023 Verdigris murder-suicide that shocked Oklahoma and led to changes in state law aimed at strengthening child safety protections in certain supervised visitation cases. The film, titled “Deadbeat,” follows two fathers who lost their children in the tragedy and later turned their grief...Read More
VERDIGRIS, Okla. — A new documentary set to release on Friday will revisit the 2023 Verdigris murder-suicide that shocked Oklahoma and led to changes in state law aimed at strengthening child safety protections in certain supervised visitation cases. The documentary, titled Deadbeat, follows two fathers who lost their children in the tragedy who later turned their grief...Read More
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – A bill that would give the state more oversight into child welfare cases is one step closer to becoming law after the North Carolina House passed the “Dominique Moody Safety Act” on Wednesday afternoon. The bill was named after Dominque Moody, a 6-year-old Charlotte girl, who died in December 2025 after...Read More
Apple unveiled a new suite of child safety tools and family experiences at this year’s WWDC, spending significant time highlighting the new features as the tech industry grapples with age verification and online safety. The company’s new Child Accounts features, which are available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, include parental monitoring tools like Ask to...Read More
By Diana Novak Jones June 15 (Reuters) – Florida’s attorney general sued TikTok on Monday over claims it is violating the state’s law barring social media platforms from allowing children under age 14 to create accounts. In the lawsuit, filed in state court in St. Lucie County, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Republican, accuses...Read More
