Transcript Naperville police department internet safety education

Cyberbullying
Sexting
Social
Laws
Networking
Illinois Legislation Public Act 095-0869 regarding
Internet Safety Curriculum states:
“Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, a
school district must incorporate into the school
curriculum a component on Internet safety to
be taught at least once each school year to
students in grade 3 or above.”
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Discuss legitimate uses of the internet
Personal safety when participating in online gaming
“Pitfalls” of on-line gaming
Types of cyber-bullying
Consequences for victim and offender
What to do if you are a victim of cyberbullying
Think Before You Click!
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On-Line Gaming means people can
become involved in game play with
persons around the world
This can be on a computer or on a
video game system
Some games allow the players to talk
to each other
Can unknowingly give away personal
information
“Players” may not be who they say
they are
“Chat-rooms” occur in sites for
younger children (Club Penguin &
Webkinz) but are limited in response
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Stress that on-line gaming is very
much a social networking site
Play can become heated between
players and conflict can spill-over
to the “physical” community
Some of the most popular games
are violence-themed
When a child, preteen or teen is tormented,
harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or
otherwise targeted by any other person using
the Internet or other digital communication
technology.
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IM-ing (i.e. I hate you)
Text Messaging
Blogging
Creating Web Sites
Sending/forwarding pictures
Sending spy-ware or other hacking programs
Internet Gaming
Stealing Passwords
Impersonation (i.e. chat rooms, blogs, emails)
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Survey Report for Grades 4th-8th
42% reported being cyber-bullied
35% reported being threatened
21 % said they have received mean or
threatening email
58% reported someone said mean
or hurtful things to them
53% reporting saying mean or
hurtful things to someone else
58% did not tell anyone about the
mean message
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Stop! Block! Tell!
Stress to tell a parent, teacher or
police, if the child is being
bullied or if they know of
someone else being bullied
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Report the incident to the
police
Police Investigation can lead
to potential criminal charges:
Disorderly Conduct
Cyber-stalking
Harassment by Electronic
Device
Child Pornography if
inappropriate photos
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My Mobile Watchdog monitors your child's cell phone
use and instantly alerts you if he or she receives
unapproved email, text messages or phone calls.
Sexting has become a national epidemic among
children and early teens. Thirty-nine percent of teens
have sent sexually suggestive text messages to other
teens, and twenty percent have sent nude or semi-nude
pictures or video of themselves.
Cyberbullying is the harmful use of technology by
students that want to bully their victims during and beyond
school hours. My Mobile Watchdog can stop them before
damage is done.
 Harassment
by
Electronic Device
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Is a Misdemeanor offense . But
can be a felony in certain
circumstances
Use of any electronic
communication
Making obscene comment,
request or suggestion, OR
Interrupting telephone service
with the intent to harass, OR
Threatening injury to the person
or property
Knowingly allowing a person to
use an electronic device for
above purposes
 Cyber-Stalking
is a Class 4 Felony
* Knowingly on 2 separate
occasions, harasses another
by use of electronic
communication and transmits
a threat or places another in
reasonable apprehension of
immediate or future harm, OR
* Creates & maintains a website
of another for at least 24 hrs,
that contains harassing
statements, and transmits a
threat or places another in
reasonable apprehension of
future harm
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 http://www.isafe.org/
 http://www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying
 http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/
 http://www.cyberbullying.us/
 http://www.cyberbully.org/
 http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/
 Discuss the new age of Instant
Information Sharing
 Define “Sexting”
 Consequences associated with
sexting: social, school and legal
 Discuss “texting” and appropriate
message content
 Cyber-bullying in the form of
sexting and texting
 Reinforce personal safety issues
and good cyber citizenship
“TEXTING”
 Simply, the exchange of information
between cellular device users
 Typically uses “SMS” (small message
system)
“SEXTING”
 The act of sending and/or receiving
sexually explicit messages or photos
via electronic communication
devices (typically cellular phones)
 Can include text, images and video
“SEXTING” Messages…
“SEXTING” Photos….
 39% of Teens (13 to 19) are
 20% of Teens (13 to 19)
sending sex-messages
 48% say they have received “sex”
messages
 Statistics provided by the
National Campaign to Prevent
Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy
 1 in 5 teens say they have sent
nude or semi-nude photo of
themselves
 2 in 5 have had a nude or semi-
nude photo of themselves
shared with others
 1 in 5 admit to forwarding a
nude or semi-nude photo that
was meant to be private
 Embarrassment
 Harassment
 Take reports seriously!
 Harassment by Electronic Device
think “words”
 Child Pornography – think “pictures”
- can charge the sender
- can charge the recipient (who keeps the
photo/does not delete it)
- can charge anyone who forwards the photo
- can charge juveniles with this
Child Pornography charges are all felonies and
can be ordered to register as a “Sex Offender”
 http://www.willcountysao.com
 http://www.ag.state.il.us
 http://www.wiredsafety.org
 http://www.stopcyberbullying.org
 http://www.thenationalcampaign.org
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Discuss “Social Networking”
– positive and negatives
Discuss the basic “rules” for
most popular pages
Emphasize personal safety
and limiting access
Stress good citizenship
Reinforce the message of
“Think before you click!”
Benefits
 Allows professional
networking and sharing of
information
 Allows an opportunity to
re-connect with friends
 Allows an opportunity to
share information with
family & friends
Hazards
 Physical – cyber stalking
 Financial – identity theft
 Allows a “look” into your life –
know who you are sharing
with!
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The most popular sites (Facebook, MySpace, and Xanga)
have the requirement that the user must be at least 13 years
of age. Kids will frequently purport themselves to be older…
Can create “false” information
Page/Site can be taken down if threatening or harassing
Varying degrees of cooperation with Law Enforcement
Be Aware of the “You Tube” Phenomenon – you may be on
it!
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ANYONE can access your information, including:
Peers
Students
Parents
Administrators
College Admissions
Scholarship Boards
Potential Employers
Law Enforcement
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THINK before you post!
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Make sure you protect your
privacy
For staff… Good rule of
thumb, do not add students
as “friends”
For Parents… ASK to be
added as a “friend” on your
child’s site – be aware they
can have more than 1 site
Be aware that information
can be used against you
“Profile Pictures” can be seen
even if set to private
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If they do find you, do you
have information on your
own site that you would
want to share with the
school population,
including pictures???
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Harassment by
Electronic Device
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Child Pornography
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Solicitation to Meet a
Child
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http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/tech/tec14.shtm
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www.getnetwise.org
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www.iKeepSafe.org
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www.i-safe.org
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www.wiredsafety.org
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www.staysafe.org