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FBI-SOS Initiative Educates Students How to Avoid Online Sexual Predators, Cyberbullying & Other Internet Dangers
September 8, 2010Millions of children are online everyday. Do you think they are aware of the dangers that exist? Do you even know the evil residing online looking to connect with children? The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and administrators for the FBI-SOS initiative do. Online child pornography/child sexual exploitation investigations accounted for 39 percent of all investigations worked under the FBI's Cyber Division. Designed to meet state and federal Internet safety mandates, the FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) Internet Challenge, is a free educational program that delivers critical Internet safety information in a fun, competitive format to students in 3rd through 8th grades with a separate monthly challenge for each grade level. At the end of each month, the schools with the highest-scoring students in each grade are rewarded with a visit from a FBI Special Agent, who presents the national trophy. Full release.
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