1. NORFOLK ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN
Patricia A. Snell, MA and Amanda S. Wolfe, MPH
Education Consultants Norfolk Advocates for Children Norfolk District Attorney’s Office

2. THE INTERNET EVERYTHING IS PUBLIC CAN’T CONTROL WHO SAVES
OR FORWARDS YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEO, TEXTS, S OR POSTS
APPS. | EASY ACCESS

3. RELATIONAL AGGRESSION
RUMORS

4. CYBER-BULLYING text, email, blogs, Facebook

5. THINK BEFORE YOU POST PRIVACY SETTINGS USER AGREEMENTS
Please add twitter logos and logos from other social media sites (from previous slide) and include pinterest. Also please make a bolded line that says “User Agreements”

6. SEXTING
DEFINED

7. RESPECT YOURSELF & OTHERS
WILL RESPECT YOU

8. ISSUES WITH SEXTING CONSEQUENCES LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
No control over where the photo(s) or videos go
Could lead to online harassment, cyberbullying, or teen dating violence
Social humiliation and damage to your reputation
School consequences suspension / expulsion
LEGAL
CONSEQUENCES

9. YES! ARE STUDENTS GETTING INTO TROUBLE?

10. CURRENT CONVICTIONS LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
Production, promotion, possession, and dissemination of child pornography
Disorderly conduct
Illegal use of a minor in
nudity-orientated material
Open and gross lewdness
Sexual abuse of children
LEGAL
CONSEQUENCES

11. THINK BEFORE YOU FORWARD
A PHOTO OR VIDEO
Who is charged?
A.H. v. State, Florida
Child pornography conviction
Philip Alpert, Florida
Felony charges sending child pornography
State v. Canal, Iowa
Obscenity conviction
Yuri Wright
Lost football scholarship due to racist and sexually graphic tweets

12. HOW THIS CAN IMPACT YOUR FUTURE School/Legal Consequences
Losing positions of leadership
Blocked access to future schools/college
Denied scholarships
Lost employment opportunities
Can be used against you as you try to advance throughout adulthood

13. DEALING WITH SEXTING OR
CYBERHARRASSMENT
DON’T RESPOND
REPORT ABUSE
TALK TO SOMEONE

14. SEXTING & TEEN DATING VIOLENCE
Sexting falls into the new category of “digital abuse” and can be used to control someone in a relationship
1/5 high school girls and 1/13 high school boys experience teen dating violence before graduating from high school

15. SEXTING & TEEN DATING VIOLENCE
One person may force or threaten a person with consequences if they do not send explicit photos
If a relationship ends, one person may spread the existing photos to other people to get back at the person who ended the relationship, or to blackmail the person who is trying to end the relationship

16. REAL LIFE
POSTS

17. THINK BEFORE YOU FORWARD
A PHOTO OR VIDEO
When you receive a text, you do not know the context of what was going on when that picture was taken:
-could the person have been pressured or forced to send the pic?
-could the person have been intoxicated when they took this picture?
-could the person in the pic not even have known that a photo was being taken?

18. RESPONDING TO INAPPROPRIATE
TEXTS OR REQUESTS FOR PHOTOS

19. TRY A NON-SEXT RESPONSE
SOMETHING FUNNY…

20. TRY A NON-SEXT RESPONSE
SOMETHING FUNNY…

21. TRY A SERIOUS RESPONSE Stress your discomfort:
“I’m way too uncomfortable doing that.”
Emphasize feelings: “If you really cared for me, you wouldn’t ask me to do that.”
Change the subject: “Um let’s do something else, ok?”
Call them out: “Nope, not gonna do anything illegal just to excite you.”

22. PLACES TO GET HELP www.athinline.com www.thatsnotcool.com
DOVE, local domestic violence agency