Hello Everyone,
Evelyn here,
with some belated but important news on the new Cybercirme unit.
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Bill McCollum
Attorney General
News Release
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Bill McCollum
Attorney General
News Release
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January 30, 2008
ATTORNEY GENERAL RECOGNIZES TAYLOR COUNTY
FOR TAKING THE CYBERSAFETY CHALLENGE
DISTRICT SIGNS UP ALL MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
FOR CYBERSAFETY PRESENTATIONS
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that
the Taylor County School District is the first district in Florida to sign
up all of its middle and high school students to receive the Attorney
General’s CyberSafety Education presentation. Attorney General McCollum,
together with Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith and Florida
Association of District School Superintendents CEO Bill Montford, issued a
CyberSafety Challenge earlier this month urging all of Florida’s school
districts to sign up their middle and high schools to receive this
critical safety message by the end of the school year.
“We have seen too many incidents where our children have been
victimized by online predators Florida as well as on a national scale,”
said Attorney General McCollum. “I want to congratulate Taylor County’s
educators for meeting the CyberSafety Challenge and recognizing the urgent
need to ensure all our students know how to keep themselves safe online.”
The CyberSafety Education program, developed by Attorney General
McCollum, combines real-life stories and examples to help students
identify ways they could be victimized by online predators. Members of the
Attorney General’s Child Predator CyberCrime Unit have been bringing the50-minute CyberSafety program to students statewide since the beginning of
the school year.
“It's a great program and it's desperately needed,” said Taylor
County District School Superintendent Oscar Howard. “In today's world with
the trash that's out there, we need to all take part in giving guidance
and direction to our young people.”
The official challenge winners – the first district to sign up the
largest total number of schools for presentations and the first district
to sign up the highest percentage of its schools for presentations – will
be formally announced in May. The winning districts will receive special
CyberSafety presentations hosted in person by Attorney General McCollum
and Commissioner Smith next fall.
Principals can visit http://www.safeflorida.net/safeschools to log
into a site developed specifically to register their schools and sign up
to receive the Attorney General’s CyberSafety presentation. Principals can
then schedule the presentations at their convenience.
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Evelyn out
