Cyber Safety
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CyberSafety Presentations
2009/2010 School Year:
142,137* students reached
2,500* reported victimization
*Stats as of 02/05/2010
2008/2009 School Year:
300,370 students reached
8,782 reported victimization
2007/2008 School Year:
138,684 students reached
7,334 reported victimization
Please report information to help in the fight against child sexual exploitation.
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Top Stories
How to Find Registered Sex Offenders in Florida
06/24/2009: Submitted by an eHow Community Member - By law, convicted sex offenders and sexual predators must register with law enforcement agencies in the state where they reside. Although it is arguably ...
Why Do Teens Engage in "Sexting?"
06/15/2009: By Sue Shellenbarger - The Wall Street Journal: Much of the talk about teens' sexting — sending nude or sexually explicit photos of themselves or peers to others via cell phone has focused on what legal or educational tools adults should use to curb it.
Keeping Kids Safe Online
06/12/2009: Keeping kids safe online is something that every great dad should be concerned about, because children today are obtaining more and more access to the Internet both at home and at school. Access to the internet in schools is very tightly regulated, but at home that isn’t necessarily the case, so how do we keep kids safe online?
Sexting: Just a modern version of spin-the-bottle?
05/27/2009: BY Rosemary Black - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER: Is sexting the new spin-the-bottle? At a conference this week, an associate professor at York University in Toronto defended sexting (where teens exchange nude and seminude photos of themselves over their cell phones) as a modern day “playing doctor or spin the bottle,” according to an AFP article.
How to keep kids safe online
04/20/2009: By JULIE LANDRY LAVIOLETTE - McClatchy Newspapers: Parents who think putting the computer in the family room will keep their child safe online are in for a rude awakening, said Jaemi Levine of Coral Springs, Fla ...
Sexting: Why New Technology Solves Some Problems and Creates Others
04/19/2009: By J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. (HealthNewsDigest.com): I’m sure you’ve seen a TV segment or read an article recently about the problems of ‘sexting’: young kids under 18 take explicit or inappropriate photos of themselves with their camera phone and then send them to their friends using Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), an advanced multimedia version of SMS...
Ten teens in Florida Keys charged with making porn video
04/15/2009: BY CAMMY CLARK - Miami Herald: Ten teenagers from the Florida Keys were charged Wednesday with making child pornography after detectives confiscated a videotape of a 16-year-old runaway girl having sex with a 19-year-old man as another man is ''directing,'' according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office...
Customs alarmed by child porn rise
04/09/2009: By Paul Maley - The Australian: RECORD amounts of child pornography are being seized at Australia's borders, much of it brought in by overseas students and foreign workers employed in remote mining areas. The rise in child pornography detections has authorities so alarmed that the Australian Customs Service has begun an education campaign aimed at warning remote area workers of the penalties for anyone caught with the images...
'Sexting' lands teen on sex offender list
04/08/2009: By Deborah Feyerick and Sheila Steffen - CNN: When Vanessa Hudgens' naked photos hit the Internet, the "High School Musical" star quickly apologized. But sending nude or seminude pictures, a phenomenon known as sexting, is a fast-growing trend among teens...
Your computer could open door to cyberpredators
04/05/2009: By Amy L. Edwards - Orlando Sentinel: hey're hacking into computers, secretly watching girls on webcams, and using sophisticated techniques to disguise child pornography and thwart law enforcement. Across the globe, men with advanced computer and Internet skills are victimizing children — including those living in Central Florida — using tactics that most people can't grasp...
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