Pandora’s Blog

I’ve been bad about posting. Sorry… Busy with our back-to-school/education push that will start next month…
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While news events keep turning about child safety online, we want to remind parents that this summer your kids will be online a LOT more, as they are not occupied by school. You won’t always be around to [...]

Pete DeLea of The Star in Cleveland County has written an excellent 3-part article on on the efforts of the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office to crack down on online sexual predators.
The series focuses on Capt. Bobby Steen’s work, the sentences online predators receive, current legislation that would amend the laws and ways parents can help [...]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported this week that a guy from Washington County man, who is already under arrest on charges of sending porn to an undercover state agent he thought was a 13-year-old girl, has been charged again! This time for sending porn images to a state trooper posing as a 15-year-old girl.
You can read [...]

Sheila Mclaughlin of The Enquirer in Cincinnati wrote an EXCELLENT piece that looks at the very common practice of letting arrested and charged online predators walk away with as little as probation to a maximum of 90 days of served jail time. Read here: Are these guys a threat?
Absolutely ridiculous.
The article focuses on cases in [...]

What a KICK ASS day for law enforcement in Florida!
Both WFTV and the Orlando Sentinel have stories on the efforts of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s “Operation Eviction,” a statewide effort to target sex offenders who were targeting children.
The operation ended with 126 arrests, stemming from stings and investigations across the state.
The scumbags? [...]

I don’t have much news to update you all with today… So, I’m going to use this time to vent and get your opinion…
I have addressed this issue before, but it keeps happening and I just don’t get it…
I’ve seen a lot of stories lately on Net safety. It’s very true the issue is coming [...]