First things first - the new California cyberbullying law (AB 746) does not make cyberbullying a criminal act. This law is to clarify the already existing law (AB 86), signed back in September 2008, and to specifically include harassment on social networking sites as a form of online bullying. This law is in violation of the California Education Code, which….read more

A California law allowing school officials to suspend or expel students for bullying online or by other electronic means has been updated to include any form of bullying done over social networking sites. This law tweaks bill AB 86 from back in 2009, which addressed different from of cyberbullying, including that from computers, website or mobile….read more

California students have a new reason to avoid sexting. Not only is it an act that can cause serious damage to a teen's online reputation, but sexting is now an expellable offense according to NBC Bay Area news. In a bill pass unanimously last week, SB 919 - which makes sexting a seriously punishable….read more

Making news this week is California's potential bill that would force social networks like Facebook to let parents access their child's account(s) and require privacy settings to be set at the highest level by default. Proposed by Senator Ellen Corbett, the "Social Networking Privacy Act" or SB 242 was initially introduced in February and is now on its….read more