Feds Go After Preds
Here’s some great news from last week from Uncle Sam and his gang in Washington:
New prosecutor jobs to target online predators
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Wednesday it will spend $5 million to create 43 new jobs for prosecutors targeting online sexual predators of children.
The assistant U.S. attorney positions are being funded through the government’s Project Safe Neighborhood program, which aims to protect youngsters from online abuse and exploitation. The jobs will be distributed among 93 federal prosecutors’ offices nationwide, focusing on where the need is greatest.
Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip announced the positions in brief visits to Charlotte, N.C., and Lexington, Ky., among those cities which will receive a new prosecutor.
“Anyone who uses the Internet to prey on children will become the primary target of law enforcement,” Filip said in a statement.
This of course is great news. Let’s hope the folks hired take their job seriously and commit themselves to doing good and not wasting more tax dollars.
As comforting as this may be, it doesn’t mean parents should ease up on the vigilance and stop monitoring PC activity. Monitoring software like PC Pandora can still be a valuable tool in making sure your kids aren’t falling victim to the bad air of the Internet.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:44 PM
While this comes as a welcome news indeed, I for one do thing it has come a bit too late. The government should have done much more earlier and this does seem to be a rather lame make up plan late on. Nevertheless, a good initiative.!
May 27th, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Finally Uncle Sam found out time to address something that should have been looked at much earlier. While $5 million is not an immense lot for something of this magnitude, it certainly is a head start towards a much safer world wide web for our children in the coming future.