Cyberbullying

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**New York Times Topics: Cyberbullying**
__**Different states' efforts**__
 * • Maine** - click on this link to learn about Maine's law related to cyberbullying: http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=13495
 * • Pennsylvania** attempts to stop cyberbullying: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS169188+14-Oct-2009+PRN20091014 and What high school students should know: [[file:CyberBullyingTeens.pdf]]

JUDICIAL BRANCH
Suggested case for you to review: //J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District// (2000). A link to the case can be found here: http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/case.aspx?id=1687. Suggested cases for you to review include (choose one): Internet free speech issues involving minors: Reno v. ACLU School-related free speech issues: Morse v. Frederick Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser New Jersey v. T.L.O. (searching students) Tinker v. Des Moines

Here is one helpful resource link (type in case name in search box). The library has a number of excellent resources. You may use other online sources as well (with the exception of wikipedia).

Interest Groups
[|Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use] [|Cyberbullying Research Center]with a specific section about some [|recent legislative proposals] [|iSafe]
 * Support School Involvement**

[|The Heritage Foundation] [|ACLU] and one of their (brief) statements to a congressional committee: [|The CATO Institute]
 * Do not support school involvement**

EXECUTIVE BRANCH
[|Pennsylvania Attorney General's program on cyberbullying]

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/educators/guide_for_schools.html This blog post describes what states and schools might do to better respond to cyberbullying: http://cyberbullying.us/blog/cyberbullying-laws-and-school-policy-a-blessing-or-curse.html

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Proposed federal legislation: http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2011/03/federal_bill_will_help_combat.html

[|Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (1998)]

[|Missouri Law]

[|Good review of state laws]

[|Connecticut's Bullying Law - links (not cyberbullying)]

[|A good article from MSNBC]

Maine State Law - (you may need to research when this law was passed... when was this legislative session in office?)