Young teens convicted of sex crimes behind the closed doors of juvenile court will now end up on the state's public registry of sex offenders.A state law that went into effect July 1 will list teens as young as 14 on the same Web site as adults who are convicted pedophiles and sexual predators. The […]
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US: New Fla. law will brand teens as sex offenders for life
Boy killed by central air system
CHICAGO -- A 12-year-old boy from the city's South Side was electrocuted when he tried to jump a fence and hit a central air conditioning system, authorities said.Vontrail Pargo cut through a neighbor's back yard to make it home before the city's curfew Thursday night and somehow hit the air conditioner, said Ryan Pargo, Vontrail's […]
County Settles Lawsuit Over 2004 School Strip Searches
CHESTERTOWN, Md. -- Two Kent County students who were strip searched in a 2004 school raid have won $285,000 in damages and written apologies from the school system and sheriff's office.The settlement announced Monday ends the lawsuit over a drug search at Kent County High School in Worton, where drug-sniffing dogs were used and more […]
Judge Blocks Ban On Selling Violent Games To Kids
A federal judge on Monday blocked a new state law that would have prohibited the sale of violent video games to children.U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte found that the law was unconstitutional, echoing a recent string of rulings in other states where similar laws were struck down after challenges by video game industry groups.The law […]
Students sue school board for bathroom breaks
CHICAGO, Aug. 9 Two middle school students are suing the Chicago Board of Education because their teacher denied them a bathroom break.Cousins Seneca Ammons and Keefe Ammons Jr. were suspended from school for using the bathroom without permission after their teacher denied the whole class a bathroom break as punishment, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday.The […]
But Mom! The other 61-year-olds get an allowance!
ROME (Reuters) - A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son's house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.Tired of her son's misbehavior, the retiree in the central Sicilian city of Caltagirone turned to the police to "convince this blockhead" to behave properly, La Sicilia, […]
Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering
'An Anonymous Coward writes "US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children. Their statement came at the end of a Senate hearing in which civil liberties groups were not invited."'This was posted on Slashdot, but I think many of […]
Myspace Allows Beta Testing of Kid-tracking Software
MySpace is in a public beta test of software it calls "ParentCare" designed to let parents keep an eye on their kids' profiles. According to the FAQ, ParentCare squats on the family PC to "automatically track any access to myspace.com from all the user accounts on your computer. The parent may run a check on […]
New search
I changed the site search to use Google Site Search. It seems to get better results, looks nicer and displays nicer descriptions for every page. Also, if you use the web search function, Google is supposed to automatically pick results more relevant to this site. Not sure how well that will work, but there's only […]
Free Speech Suit Filed
A Lewis S. Mills High School student who was barred from running for class office after she called administrators a derogatory term on an Internet blog is accusing top school officials of violating her free speech rights.Avery Doninger, a senior at the school in Burlington this fall, was removed as class secretary in the controversy […]
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