BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
OLATHE KANSAS

Email Scoutmaster
Randy Warner:
scoutmaster@bsatroop315.org

Internet Safety

Through school, the Olathe Police Department released the following information. It is a good follow-up from the Internet Safety presentation by the Johnson County Sheriff's Dept at the March 5 Troop meeting.

"I wanted to pass along information on Internet sites developed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to teach children about being safe on-line. There are actually several sites. 

The first, www.NetSmartz.org , has information for Parents, Educators, Law Enforcement, Teens, and Kids.  It even has a Spanish option.  There's a lot of information here to include chat abbreviations, info on social networking sites, age appropriate teaching resources for all ages of children, etc.

The second is only for kids, www.NetSmartzkids.org .  It has age specific games, activities, etc all designed to help teach kids Internet safety.

The third is geared toward teenage girl's safety on social networking sites: www.2smrt4u.com .

More child safety information and resources can also be found at NCMEC's website of; www.missingkids.com.

These sites are good resources for us to refer parents too, and to use with our own children. I have also attached a flyer prepared by the NCMEC on Preventing the Sexual Exploitation of Children .  This scanned copy is difficult to read on a computer monitor because of it's gray background but it prints out clearly if it's something you want."