One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Posts on cop killing at center of officer discipline.
Thursday’s four-hour Dothan Personnel Board hearing dealt with the weighty issue of free speech as parties wrestled with just how far a uniformed police officer can go in posting potentially explosive comments on social media.
Source: Dothan Eagle
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Pew Internet has released its 2013 Pew Internet Report on Teens, Social Media, and Privacy:
Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data; just 9% say they are “very” concerned.
Source: Pew Internet
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Montgomery serial rapist pleads guilty to 12 counts.
The Montgomery man police say used social media to lure his victims to be raped has pleaded guilty to 12 counts relating to the rapes of five women.
At the time of his arrest, authorities called 22-year-old Roderikus Alloway a serial rapist and sexual predator. He has now pleaded guilty to five counts of first degree rape, six counts of first degree sodomy and one count of forcible sexual touching.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled When oversharing online can get you arrested.
The man, Richard Godbehere, posted the clip in February under the title “Let’s Go Driving, Drinking!” to LiveLeak, a video-sharing site where users can vote on and donate to videos they like.
Even so, he appeared surprised when police showed up at his house in Kapa’a, Hawaii, to arrest him on charges of consuming alcohol while operating a vehicle and driving without a license.
“It’s unbelievable,” Godbehere told CNN. He says the video was meant as a parody. “There was no beer in that bottle.” Godbehere is due in court in June, and police in Kaua’i told CNN the case will come down to whether a judge or jury believes him.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled When bullying goes high-tech.
As many as 25% of teenagers have experienced cyberbullying at some point, said Justin W. Patchin, who studies the phenomenon at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He and colleagues have conducted formal surveys of 15,000 middle and high school students throughout the United States, and found that about 10% of teens have been victims of cyberbullying in the last 30 days.
Online bullying has a lot in common with bullying in school: Both behaviors include harassment, humiliation, teasing and aggression, Patchin said. Cyberbullying presents unique challenges in the sense that the perpetrator can attempt to be anonymous, and attacks can happen at any time of day or night.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Police: 2 men charged with rape of teen they met online.
Tuscaloosa police officers arrested two men on rape charges involving the same 14-year-old girl they allegedly met online.
Investigators say the men met the 14-year-old girl on a social media website called “Tagged,” a site where people can exchange pictures and messages. The teen’s mother found messages from older men to her daughter and called police on Dec. 31, 2012.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled A dangerous web.
Local authorities made at least a dozen arrests in the last year and a half on charges involving the alleged solicitation of children through the Internet or by other electronic means.
The offenses in some of the dozen criminal cases across Henry and Houston counties allegedly involve the use of either e-mail, social media accounts such as Facebook and/or cell phones to elicit unlawful activity with children.
Source: Dothan Eagle
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Andalusia Star News published an article titled Facebook predator pleads guilty.
Pilkington, a Crossover Ministries client from Auburn, was caught after parents of multiple teenage girls reported that a man using the name “Bill Allen” had contacted their daughters on the social media site. Pilkington was ultimately arrested after Opp Police Department investigator Kevin Chance posed as one of the girls in a more than 12-hour online chat of sexually-explicit remarks. Pilkington, who stole a van to facilitate a meeting, was taken into custody less than 1,000-feet from a suggested meeting place.
Source: Andalusia Star News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WFMY published an article titled Suspects Broke Into Homes Of Facebook Friends Who Posted Out-Of-Town Information.
Anderson, SC– Investigators say a woman and a man broke into the homes of her Facebook friends after finding out they were out of town by their posts on the social networking site.
Source: WFMY
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled New La. law: Sex offenders must list status on Facebook, other social media.
A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law’s author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.
State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminal’s social networking sites as well.
Source: CNN
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