Sen. Mike Crapo, a longtime leader in combating dating violence among adolescents, will appear at Wednesday in Boise at a 2-hour forum.
The event is titled, "Idaho Policy Roundtable Discussion on the Prevention of Digital Dating Abuse and 'Sexting' in Adolescent Relationships." It helps mark National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month, an effort supported by Crapo, R-Idaho.
Sexting is sending a text message with an inappropriate, semi-nude or nude photograph.
The event is sponsored by the Idaho Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Project and Start Strong Idaho, a collaboration of the Idaho Department of Education, St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital and the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence.
It will be held at the Boise Centre's Falcon room, from noon to 2 p.m. Speakers will appear between 12:15 and 1.
Crapo will be joined by Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna; Catherine Pierce, director of the Office on Violence Against Women in the U.S. Department of Justice; and Brian O’Connor of the Family Violence Prevention Fund. Advisory council members of the Idaho Teen Dating Violence and Start Strong Idaho Teen Advisory Council will also speak.
Organizers expect more than 200 community, school, youth organization and teens representatives.
According to a news release, digital dating abuse and sexting are becoming a "new frontier" for teen dating abuse.
The 2009 Idaho Youth Risk Behavior Survey reports 18 percent of Idaho high school students were electronically bullied in the last 12 months and and 10 percent were forced to have unwanted sex.
Digital dating abuse — unwanted, repeated calls or text messages, breaking into e-mail or social networking accounts, or posting cruel comments on social network sites — is increasing. Recent surveys also report that one in five teens participates in sexting.
For more information contact Kelly Miller,
legal director of Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence at (208) 384-0419, (888) 293-6118 or kmiller@idvsa.org
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106 percent - what, they got hit twice?
No doubt they were drunk or on meth~
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Sexting is Abuse?
I thought it was just stupid to send sexy photos over the phone. How does this fall into the same category as bullying and physical abuse? How is it that we elect people to LEAD us and then they jump on any bandwagon created by "Dateline" and their ilk. Apparently the internet is serious business.
Stupid is a good word
Abuse? No, but when you ponder pedophiles "enjoying" pictures of your 14-YO daughter after they get forwarded a few times ... and hey, if they're not stupid they can fairly easily get a name, maybe an address to go with. Yeah, no worries there. She'll be fine. Crack open another beer.
Pedophiles ain't the deal it's teenagers/ex BF-GF and JERKS.
And yes, transmission of materials depicting minors in sexually suggestive, nudity and sexual acts is definined as child pornograhy. Due to the nature of telecommunication to be capable of disseminating it to any point on earth and via satellites it's not only illegal as PORNOGRAPHY it qualifies as an interstate transportation. If the minor were moved across state lines for this purpose it would be a violation of the Mann Act at the LEAST. Since a sex crime was committed to create the material(s) then it is without doubt a crime to transmit it over publicly and privately assigned bandwidths.
Owning a tape or magazine that is not legal and possessing it in a storage device, whether bought or acquired in a phone/IM message is owning and equally illegal.
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Exactly, every teenager now
Exactly, every teenager now does that. And you know how it all started? With the teen singers like Miley Cyrus posting their own nude photos all over the internet. Now every girl wants to do the same and be famous... Nice! And dating has nothing to do with that... Dating is the last thing they are thinking about when posting photos on web sites. These photo's are not of professional dating sites. All of them require credit cards for authentication, at the least.
If you see pics like that, 101% of them are PHOTOSHOPPED.
Now, if you are referring to the Annie Leibowitz shoot that appeared in a magazine, were authorized by Miley, her family and she was proud of but came to regret after the controversy.
None of them were fully nude and no genitalia exposed. Full legal under current laws.
Unless laws have changed Ms. Cyrus can legally pose nude or act in movies under California statues over the age of 16. You can look that up as well as I can.
I don't think she's putting on a good example acting goofy like we keep hearing about but then again I haven't seen exactly what they talk about. Mainly I just wonder why bother.
If you are living under a cloud of innuendo and rumor then I suggest you strengthen your own personal life and fix your faults as well. Vanity is a sin and jealousy means your Plan A failed.
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The only things I know about the internet are that it puts all the world's knowledge, entertainment and opinion before your open eyes.
And it cheeses your melon bad, check out the rage man.
Why on school day?
AND pray tell, why is this being held on a school day when students should be in school. Wouldn't it been better to hold this on a Saturday when more students could attend? Representative of the Idaho School Boards stated recently statistics show the more time in the classroom the better student educational results.
I would rather "lose" a school day to keeping a child wise/safe.
You may understand the implications of your actions well but I also remember being young. We didn't have an affordable and globally encompassing wireless network, much less internet access. We had PAYPHONES. We had AM and maybe FM, maybe even CASSETTES, and later on CDs were more affordable (I didn't have ANY until I won a 6-pack on KF95 in 1989 or 1990).
We didn't pass around sexual pictures of our classmates...Instant film (Polaroids) was expensive and the photo counter guy in the grocery or drugstore would probably find out and we'd be in massive trouble. I hope that you realize what a recent invention the cameraphone actually is or that CCD based "digital" cameras are also newly cheap or that less than 1 megapixel 640x480 resolution was the norm for budget, if not most cameras and even so the light sensitivity was relatively poor, requiring a strong flash even so.
Internet access leaves anybody with the same experience in a different format. Email is availble instantly and they can text or IM, something I couldn't do in 1997 with my first ISP. Mistakes are easy yet the laws are hard. Mr. Luna is a wise man and a parent to all the children he works to educate.
Any jerk who feels spurned can pull off a stunt that will seriously harm his life with simple, inexpensive hardware and software plus a wireless "bullet" and THAT is why we talk to them on a FRIDAY.
Schools have the leeway to alter the schedule and have these meetings. The lessons learned about thinking before doing something as all actions have consequences that affect others as well as yourself is more important than missing a day of MATH or US Government etc. Schools are allowed to swap some days like you would swap Saturday night at work. After a certain number of days they must make then up for a required number of attendance days.
PS If I missed a day of math I seriously doubt my brain would shrivel. It wouldn't be less likely to finish the class either. I spent all of HS working to graduate and when I marched to get my diploma it was the blurriest day of my life and quite a feeling of separation at the same time. 1984 was something.
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I think it's hard to control
I think it's hard to control this type of thing, but combating abuse is definitely important and should be more of the focus. There is a fine line between the two however. Glad to see this being dealt with!
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Okay, you're getting really close to being a spammer...
with your generic, sorta connected comments
I'm watching. If the links are wack...I'm busy right now...my folks are over today before dad's chemo. Shane'll get you, won't you Shane?
Anyhoo
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Stop whining about the stupid signature and think for yourself.