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MONDAY NIGHT SUMMIT REVIEWS


Attention Neighborhood Watch members:

I wanted to thank those of you who took time to come to the Cyber Safety Summit last night. I look forward to seeing and meeting more of you Wednesday night at East Paulding High School. We received a lot of positive feedback after the summit as well as emails. I feel like that this summit has already made the impact that we hoped it would make. I mentioned last night that we as law enforcement will not be able to stop crime from taking place. However, when a partnership between local law enforcement and the citizens in the community is built a significant impact on crime can be made for that area. This summit is just another step and tool being used to build and improve that relationship and partnership with the citizens of Paulding County. Hopefully, the information that we are able to provide you with will allow you to engage your children or grandchildren in conversations about the potential dangers on the internet.

I apologize to last night’s crowd that we were not able to offer the “live chat” session with an Internet Crimes Against Children detective. This session would have allowed you to see how quickly potential predators begin trying to “chat” with the child on the internet…..(potentially) YOUR CHILD! Hopefully, we will have the problems corrected by Wednesday night so that we can provide that live chat session for the members in attendance. You will be shocked at how quickly adults begin to engage the minor in conversation in an attempt to exploit them.

I wanted to thank the members that have sent emails expressing their appreciation for the summit and how important they felt that it was that more parents and families receive the intended message. I have included five of the emails below. There is still room for you to RSVP for Wednesday night’s session to confirm your seating. However, it is not required that you RSVP to attend.

Cpl. Brandon Gurley

Email 1:

My husband & I attended the Cyber Safety Summit Monday (4/27) at the Paulding Co High School.

WOW! This was a VERY informative event and we are so glad we took the time to attend. I would love to encourage you to attend the Cyber Safety Summit @ East Pauding if you did not attend Monday night (4/27). It will be well worth your time!!

We were informed on things that absolutely gave us a wake up call. Sometimes we just think we have it all together, and nothing like these things will ever come home to us...I know from experience that none of us are exempt from tragedy. May I encourage you to take a couple of hours to find out what your children/grandchildren may be involved in.

Thanks to our law enforcement officers and other community workers that took the time after being on their jobs all day to share this most valuable information to the public. It's public education like this that may prevent a heartache to a family while possibly preventing the death of a loved one. Thank you so much for sharing.

Email 2:

Corporal Gurley:

You guys did a great job tonight. As I told Sheriff Gulledge, you have started something good here, and I hope to see it spread like wild fire. I have nine and eleven year old daughters, and I don't want to see their lives impacted by any of the things that we heard tonight. Thank you for putting the summit together. Paulding County needs to hear the message.

Email 3:

Brandon,

I would like to echo the responses that you have already received and say what a great job everyone did last night at the Cyber Safety Summit. I hope that the word will continue to spread and together, as a community, we can begin to educate both parents and children alike on potential dangers of the internet and of dangerous games our children are playing such as the “choking game”.

I also wanted to see if there’s any way you could send me one of the packages that were distributed after the meeting. Unfortunately, I had to leave before the end so I was unable to pick one up.

Email 4:

I attended the Cyber Summit last night and will attend the one at East Paulding High on Wednesday evening at 7. I urge you to attend. Please forward this email to everyone in your address book that has children. The danger is real and it only takes a couple of hours of education to combat it!!

Email 5

Thank you so much for putting this summit together. While I knew about online dangers and had heard about some of the dangerous games kids were playing, it didn’t hit me how serious these problems are until hearing the firsthand, local experiences last night. What courage and love it took for those dads to share their stories and I know they will save lives.

Please keep continuing your outreach into our community by hosting these summits. Hopefully, participation will continue to grow. We are all better parents and our kids are much safer when we are informed.

Thank you!

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE....ONLINE?




Have you ever dropped your child off in downtown Atlanta to enjoy the sites and attractions with NO supervision? Of course not! Why would you “drop” your child off online without the same amount of supervision? This 1-night, PARENTS ONLY, presentation will give you the insight and education you need to help safeguard your children from the dangers lurking on the internet. Learn about MySpace, Facebook, and other forms of electronic communications available to children.

Must be OVER 18 to attend due to graphic subject material!


This is first-hand knowledge that you can not afford to pass up!


Highlights
• Cybersafety: Online predators and exploitation
• Dangerous Online Influences (i.e. “The Choking Game”)
• Cyberbullying: Threats and coercion
• Prevention: Monitoring and communication
• Child Abduction Response Initiatives
• Guest Speakers: PCSO Crimes Against Children Unit, Georgia Bureau of
Investigations, Keep Georgia Safe Foundation, and others

We ask that you please RSVP by sending the names of attendees to the email address below that represents the location and date that you wish to attend.

TIME & LOCATIONS:
Monday, April 27, 2009 @ 7 p.m.
Paulding County High School Theatre
1297 Villa Rica Hwy. Dallas, GA 30132
RSVP: pchs.cybersafety@yahoo.com

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 @ 7 p.m.
East Paulding High School Theatre
3320 East Paulding Dr. Dallas, GA 30157
RSVP: ephs.cybersafety@yahoo.com
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Do not forget to RSVP by email for this FREE event. Seating is limited. We will let you know if your RSVP is received after we have filled up both locations. We will plan on offering this summit in the future if needed to accommodate everyone that is interested.
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This is a fantastic opportunity for parents to learn what's out there that their kids can wander across while on-line. I strongly encourage everyone with children to RSVP and plan on attending one of the locations for some valuable FREE training!!

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My kids are just now getting old enough to get on the computer. I need a head start. But Hubby won't get home until around 7. How often are you doing this? Any weekends?

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My kids are just now getting old enough to get on the computer. I need a head start. But Hubby won't get home until around 7. How often are you doing this? Any weekends?

 

We do not have plans at this time to offer a large scale presentation like this on a regular basis. We do speak in neighborhood watch meetings, church groups, schools, and other gatherings about cyber safety when invited and asked to give information about this topic.

 

For this event there will be representatives from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Internet Crimes Against Children unit, Keep Georgia Safe, Paulding County Sheriff's Office, and others to speak on different topics. You will also hear from two different local families whose lives were changed forever when their children became victims of "dangerous online activity."

 

Although smaller scale presentations may be made available in the future, a presentation of this magnitude may not be available for some time.

 

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I just RSVP'd and I sent the info along to my pastor to see about getting the word out to parents in our church or invite y'all to do a presentation at our church. This is a wonderful community service! Any parent who would like to protect their child's innocence as long as possible should go. :good:

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The only problems my kids seem to be having (and they are girls, btw) is getting their Myspace sites hacked by their friends, every so often when one of them gets pissed off about whatever. I routinely check their sites, and I haven't come across any of the horrible things brought up by the OP....thank God!! Just a bunch of teenage girls scuffling with each other...one day they're best friends, and the next, they're not...then on again, off again. :wacko:

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The only problems my kids seem to be having (and they are girls, btw) is getting their Myspace sites hacked by their friends, every so often when one of them gets pissed off about whatever. I routinely check their sites, and I haven't come across any of the horrible things brought up by the OP....thank God!! Just a bunch of teenage girls scuffling with each other...one day they're best friends, and the next, they're not...then on again, off again. :wacko:

 

Excellent point.... This is a growing problem and concern. The online activity that you just described has become known as "cyberbullying." Cyberbullying can and has led to bigger problems at school and in the social lives of our children. That will also be dicussed in more detail at this summit.

 

 

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Excellent point.... This is a growing problem and concern. The online activity that you just described has become known as "cyberbullying." Cyberbullying can and has led to bigger problems at school and in the social lives of our children. That will also be dicussed in more detail at this summit.

 

 

Well, I try to tell them how to avoid this....but there are two things about kids..

 

1. They tend to spill their passwords to their friends (when they are getting along with each other)

2. They SUCK at making up passwords, using easy to figure out stuff, like birthdays, pets' names, etc.

 

IMO, cyber bullying is a helluvalot easier to deal with than the bullying my generation had to deal with...which was a physical beating.

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Attention Neighborhood Watch members:

 

I wanted to thank those of you who took time to come to the Cyber Safety Summit last night. I look forward to seeing and meeting more of you Wednesday night at East Paulding High School. We received a lot of positive feedback after the summit as well as emails. I feel like that this summit has already made the impact that we hoped it would make. I mentioned last night that we as law enforcement will not be able to stop crime from taking place. However, when a partnership between local law enforcement and the citizens in the community is built a significant impact on crime can be made for that area. This summit is just another step and tool being used to build and improve that relationship and partnership with the citizens of Paulding County. Hopefully, the information that we are able to provide you with will allow you to engage your children or grandchildren in conversations about the potential dangers on the internet.

 

I apologize to last night’s crowd that we were not able to offer the “live chat” session with an Internet Crimes Against Children detective. This session would have allowed you to see how quickly potential predators begin trying to “chat” with the child on the internet…..(potentially) YOUR CHILD! Hopefully, we will have the problems corrected by Wednesday night so that we can provide that live chat session for the members in attendance. You will be shocked at how quickly adults begin to engage the minor in conversation in an attempt to exploit them.

 

I wanted to thank the members that have sent emails expressing their appreciation for the summit and how important they felt that it was that more parents and families receive the intended message. I have included five of the emails below. There is still room for you to RSVP for Wednesday night’s session to confirm your seating. However, it is not required that you RSVP to attend.

 

Cpl. Brandon Gurley

 

Email 1:

 

My husband & I attended the Cyber Safety Summit Monday (4/27) at the Paulding Co High School.

 

WOW! This was a VERY informative event and we are so glad we took the time to attend. I would love to encourage you to attend the Cyber Safety Summit @ East Pauding if you did not attend Monday night (4/27). It will be well worth your time!!

 

We were informed on things that absolutely gave us a wake up call. Sometimes we just think we have it all together, and nothing like these things will ever come home to us...I know from experience that none of us are exempt from tragedy. May I encourage you to take a couple of hours to find out what your children/grandchildren may be involved in.

 

Thanks to our law enforcement officers and other community workers that took the time after being on their jobs all day to share this most valuable information to the public. It's public education like this that may prevent a heartache to a family while possibly preventing the death of a loved one. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

Email 2:

 

Corporal Gurley:

 

You guys did a great job tonight. As I told Sheriff Gulledge, you have started something good here, and I hope to see it spread like wild fire. I have nine and eleven year old daughters, and I don't want to see their lives impacted by any of the things that we heard tonight. Thank you for putting the summit together. Paulding County needs to hear the message.

 

Email 3:

 

Brandon,

 

I would like to echo the responses that you have already received and say what a great job everyone did last night at the Cyber Safety Summit. I hope that the word will continue to spread and together, as a community, we can begin to educate both parents and children alike on potential dangers of the internet and of dangerous games our children are playing such as the “choking game”.

 

I also wanted to see if there’s any way you could send me one of the packages that were distributed after the meeting. Unfortunately, I had to leave before the end so I was unable to pick one up.

 

Email 4:

 

I attended the Cyber Summit last night and will attend the one at East Paulding High on Wednesday evening at 7. I urge you to attend. Please forward this email to everyone in your address book that has children. The danger is real and it only takes a couple of hours of education to combat it!!

 

Email 5

 

Thank you so much for putting this summit together. While I knew about online dangers and had heard about some of the dangerous games kids were playing, it didn’t hit me how serious these problems are until hearing the firsthand, local experiences last night. What courage and love it took for those dads to share their stories and I know they will save lives.

 

Please keep continuing your outreach into our community by hosting these summits. Hopefully, participation will continue to grow. We are all better parents and our kids are much safer when we are informed.

 

Thank you!

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