by admin | Dec 16, 2007 | Crime / Courts
The effort to protect children from online sexual predators is becoming more challenging as technology expands and the use of that technology expands. Platte County Sheriff’s Department Captain Paul Carrill is the Officer in Charge of the Western Missouri Cyber...
by admin | Dec 3, 2007 | Crime / Courts
St. Charles County Prosecutor Jack Banas has announced there will be no criminal charges filed in what has become known as the MySpace suicide case. 13-year-old Megan Meier of Dardenne Prairie hanged herself, last year, over an Internet hoax. The teenager’s...
by admin | Nov 27, 2007 | Crime / Courts
Florissant has made Internet harassment a crime. It’s the second city in the St. Louis area to pass such an ordinance. Both have acted in response to the story of a Dardenne P:rairie teenager who hanged herself after getting mean-spirited messages on her...
by admin | Oct 28, 2007 | Business
Missouri’s small telephone companies are making it known they are doing a good job of delivering high-speed Internet service to the state’s rural areas, and they want to be a part of the Rural High-Speed Internet Access Task Force ordered created by...
by admin | Jul 17, 2007 | Politics / Govt
The State of Missouri has joined forces with the federal government, child advocacy organizations, and the private sector to promote an initiative aimed at helping to keep kids safe online. The "I Know Better" campaign – spelled INOBTR as a reflection...
