The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, was convicted on multiple charges, including one count each of extortion and ...

MSU's Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training provides free training and resources to criminal justice agencies that are accredited through the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement ...

Ohio has now made sextortion a felony offense and gives more rights to the parents of the victims. One of 30 bills that ...

State Representative Shane Baker of Somerset filed HB 47 on Tuesday to create awareness of the issue of sextortion, require ...

Spread the loveIntroduction Governor DeWine has signed multiple bills targeting critical safety issues in schools and online ...

Braden’s Law, authored by state Rep. Brian Lorenz (R-Powell), was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine Wednesday.

House Bill 82 would update Montana law to account for the use of AI in altering photos of minors and using computer-generated ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Governor Mike DeWine signed a new bill into law that criminalizes the sextortion of minors and imposes new requirements on social media companies regarding information about minors ...

Multibillion-dollar tech companies have a financial interest in peddling disturbing exploitative content and intentionally creating algorithms to hook children.

Governor Mike DeWine has signed a new bill into law aimed at protecting individuals from the harmful crime of sextortion. The ...

In a statement released by the Maciejewski Family on Friday, January 3, it was revealed that their 13-year-old son, Levi, was the victim of a heinous online crime that has ...

House Bill 531 was named after Braden Markus, a 15-year-old boy who went to Olentangy High School. He was the victim of a financial sextortion scam three years ago.