Cyberangels ^Å^ Information

Using our special knowledge of online harassment and crimes, Cyberangels has long aided law enforcement in finding child pornography, sexual predators and other online criminal content and activities. The U.S. Customs Cybersmuggling Unit alone is arresting one online predator or child pornographer every other day in the U.S. Many of those cases involved our help. We're very proud of our track record.

Our Net Patrol program was honored by the Mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, by a proclamation naming August 15th 1998 Guardian Angel Day in New York City. The Mayor listed our Net Patrol efforts and successes and commended our volunteers.

There's much more to Cyberangels than just our Net Patrol, and that is why we were awarded the 1998 President's Service award from the White House and the Points of Light Foundation.

Our new Cybersafe Schools Program works with schools around the U.S., and soon around the world, in helping them set up technology programs that work! Using experienced technology and media specialists and librarians, we have developed a training and consulting program that includes curricula, teaching modules and tech plans.

And our educational programs don't stop there...

Our Net Classes program, online and offline, teach law enforcement about technology, parents about the Internet and Internet safety, and 'Net users about online safety. This program has expanded to include basic 'Net skills training and searching techniques, FAQs and information about the law as it applies to cyberspace.

Parents are faced with having to raise and guide their children, knowing that their children understand the Internet far better than they do. This frustration can best be expressed by the following anecdote:

A mother sits down with her child at the computer. She opens a bag from a computer store and shows her child the box. "This," she says, pointing to the box," is a new software that will control your surfing. It will prevent you from going anywhere I don't think you should go and keep you from doing what I don't want you to do Online."

As her child takes the box from her hand, she asks her child, "will you install it for me?"

Parents need to be able to understand what their children are doing online, what their schools are planning to do online and how to get the most out of the Internet, safely.

That's why Parry was brought on board...Parry is the author of the new book, A Parents' Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (McGraw-Hill, 2000). Parry is also our Cyberangels Executive Director.

We give lots of classes here and online tips for parents. We are designing new safety quizzes for kids too. They can try out our online safety quiz, and earn a safe surfing learners permit!

We help others in need as well...by providing links to advocacy and assistance organizations online, where victims of abuse and crime can find support, people in need can find others willing to help them and those willing to help make a difference can find places to devote their energies.

We help victims of online stalking, harassment and online predators. We give netizens a place to report online crimes and criminal content. We gather information on child abuse sites and sites advocating child abuse and pedophilia, and share that information with organizations and agencies interested in giving parents a choice to block access to those sites.

We teach seniors how to avoid online fraud and scams targeted at seniors. We let people know where to report criminal activities and where to seek help.

But, bottom line...online and offline, we are devoted to making a positive difference in the lives of as many people as we can...

The online world is a community, a worldwide community...where all its residents should create a new vision...to leave the community a better place than when we found it!

We're here to help!!!