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SEXTING SCHOOL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

SEXTING SCHOOL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. Definition. What is it? SEXTING - is a term intended to define a specific type of activity involving youth, sexually explicit photos or text, and electronic devices that take and transmit photos and text.

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SEXTING SCHOOL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

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  1. SEXTING SCHOOL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

  2. Definition What is it? SEXTING - is a term intended to define a specific type of activity involving youth, sexually explicit photos or text, and electronic devices that take and transmit photos and text.

  3. Sexting – School Policies and Procedures Survey Results, 2009The Pew Internet & American Life Project • 800 – teens (ages 12 to 17) and reported that 15% had received nude or nearly nude photos by phone • The reasons they were shared: • As part of or instead of sexual activity • As a way of starting or maintaining a relationship with a significant other • Passed to friends for entertainment or as a joke

  4. Communities, parents, guardians, school administrators, law enforcement, and policymakers have become concerned about an activity known as "sexting” and its impact. • The media has reported instances where children have been charged with a violation of child pornography laws for self-producing and/or distributing these photos. • CNN

  5. Schools can’t look the other way and pretend that they don’t have a role to play • Child Internet Protection Act - 2002 • Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act – 2008 • Summary statement • As educators, our job is to report harassment when we see it, know and enforce relevant laws and policies, as well as locate and use the social and educational resources available

  6. What are schools doing? • Vermont – is considering making sexually explicit text messages shared between teenagers legal – in order to avoid having teenagers classified as sex offenders for sending nude or semi-nude photos • Houston ISD and Mesquite ISD became one of the first large districts in the nation to officially ban sexting.

  7. Question: Using the examples from Vermont – Houston ISD and Mesquite ISD: As we develop an AUP, Student Code of Conduct or local board policy to reflect new technology in schools what are the recommendations for the language we include to protect students and the school district?

  8. Round Table Discussion Panel Brent Weaver – Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department Tanner Hunt – Attorney – Specializing in School Law Detective Jimmie Curl– Beaumont Police Department – Cybercrimes Pat Knauth– District Attorney’s Office Jared Fountain – Principal Hardin County JJAE - Probation Officer

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