2017-05-31 Digital Technology and Child Pornography from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the National Seminar for Public Defenders in New Orleans, LA on 31 May 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and availability.
2017-03-09 Cybertraps for Educators from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES in Yorktown Heights, NY on March 9, 2017. This event was organized by Anonymous Alerts, which produces a school safety app to facilitate the anonymous reporting of various types of incidents. [Disclosure: I am a member of the Board of…
2017-02-19 Cybertraps for Administrators and School Boards from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the Alaska Society for Technology in Education 2017 Annual Conference on February 19, 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…
2017-01-20 Digital Technology and Child Pornography from Frederick Lane A CLE presentation delivered to the office of the Federal Public Defenders in Knoxville, TN on January 20, 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…
On Thursday, May 26, Good Morning America aired the latest segment in a series that it has been doing on teens and technology. Entitled “What Your Kids Don’t Want You to Know: Teens Exploited Via Technology,” the piece “examines how some teens are coerced or blackmailed into sending explicit pictures or video to a predator.”…
Nearly 900 years ago, in 1154, an English bishop named Nicholas Breakspeare was elected Pope, and took the name Adrian IV. He is thus far the only Englishman to serve as the Holy Pontiff. Pope Adrian IV only served for five years before his death in 1159, and left at most a modest footprint on…
A long-time Chicago middle school teacher, who sparked an international manhunt after fleeing sexual assault charges, was sentenced on Thursday, November 5, to 50 years in prison. “You earned every day of it,” Judge Daniel Shanes told 42-year-old Michael Vucic, an 18-year veteran at Gavin South Middle School in Ingleside, IL. An arrest warrant was…
Three students at Ponderosa High School in Ponderosa, CA are now facing child pornography charges following two separate incidents over the past two weeks. In a press release issued on October 17, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office announced the discovery a sexually explicit video involving three minors: On October 14, 2015, at Ponderosa High…
A 45-year-old science teacher at Santa Ana High School was arrested in early September “on suspicion of having sex with a 16-year-old female student” two years earlier. According to the Santa Ana Police Department, Alvar Albert Gonzalez, met the victim in one of his classes and allegedly had sex with her during her school lunch…
Earlier this year, I wrote about the case of Robert Emmett, who plead guilty to charges of filming up the skirts of students at his school, St. Andrews Cathedral School in Sydney, and to possession of child abuse materials. Last Thursday, Judge Ian McClintock of the Downing Centre District Court imposed a sentence of two…
