Agenda for Action

Every year, thousands of children become victims of crime whether through kidnappings, violent attacks, sexual abuse, or online predators that uses social media warfare tactics to confuse and deceive them. Distribution of child pornography and adult obscenity expanded exponentially with advances in computer technology and increased availability and popular use of the Internet. Action steps should include, but not be limited to, the following areas:

• ? Support and expand research efforts addressing the threats that children face in all forms of social media warfare.
• ? Training is a critical step in enabling law enforcement officers to deal with the threats and abuses that children face on the Internet and in social media, and that training should be expanded at all levels law enforcement academies, universities, and advanced professional training.
• ? Support and expand efforts to teach children, at a young age, how to identify and deal with threats they encounter on the Internet and through social media, including taking legislative action at the state level to fund such efforts.
• ? Support and expand efforts to train educators how to teach children to identify and deal with threats they encounter on the Internet and through social media.
• ? Support and expand efforts to train scout and club leaders how to teach children to identify and deal with threats they encounter on the Internet and through social media and encourage such learning through awards and recognition.