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| Officials Talk Kids and Cyber Bullying |
An official with the Illinois Attorney General's Office says students need to be smarter about their internet usage if things like cyber-bullying are to be stopped.
Sarah Migis is an Internet Safety Specialist with the High-Tech Crimes Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General's Office, and spoke to students at Churchill Junior High School Thursday, then with Galesburg School District and Police officials, and then with parents at a forum sponsored by the Knox County Regional Office of Education.
Migis' visit was planned long before two pages surfaced on the internet website Facebook targeting Galesburg High School students for harassment, along with a third site that targeted students at Churchill.
Migis tells WGIL she talks with students about how they can be good, in her words, digital citizens.
"We talk a lot about three things, the who, the what, and the how, so who they're shairing their lives with online, what they're sharing online and if they're respecting other people's privacy, reputation, bodies, representing their own bodies reputations, privacy."
Migas says most youth are impulsive in nature, not good at regulating themselves, and have technology that moves quickly and allows for them to be anonymous when they're anything but.
Galesburg police got all three Facebook pages down within 24 hours of being notified of them, while district officials say it may seem like nothing is being done about cyber-bullying, nothing could be further from the truth. |
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| 05 13 11 by Newsroom |
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