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About the Protecting Our Kids Program
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley created the Protecting Our Kids program to help parents and other concerned adults safeguard the Internet activities of young people. Protecting Our Kids gives parents, school librarians, and other adults in charge of supervising children’s online computer activities the tools needed to protect kids from online predators and prevent them from engaging in Internet crime.
By understanding how to avoid the dangers of the Internet and how to take control of the family computer, parents can successfully keep criminal predators out of their homes and out of their children’s lives. They can also learn how to prevent their children from using the Internet to break the law.
If you would like a District Attorney representative to speak to your PTA or community group about Protecting Our Kids, please contact the Bureau of Community Relations at (213) 974-7401, or e-mail us by clicking here.
P.O.K. was produced by the District Attorney’s Bureau of Community Relations with the help of the District Attorney’s High Technology Crime Unit. Key contributors to the project include members of the District Attorney’s Crime Prevention Strategies Committee and the following individuals:
Jonathan Fairtlough - A deputy district attorney in the High Technology Crime Unit, Mr. Fairtlough is a member of the Southern California High-Tech Crime task force and works with the Los Angeles Electronic Crime Task Force. He specializes in the prosecution of large-scale identity theft, computer intrusion, software counterfeiting, and Internet auction fraud. His duties include the prosecution of juveniles who commit computer-related crimes. He received his law degree from Loyola Law School and is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University.
Lisa Crane - Ms. Crane is managing partner of Media Venture Advisors, a business consulting, executive search, and strategic advisory firm. She has held a number of executive positions in the media/entertainment and technology industries, including CEO of Soundbreak.com, vice president of NBC Interactive and general manager of NBC.com, and vice president of several divisions at Universal Studios. Ms. Crane served as a technical advisor for the Protecting Our Kids program and is a member of the District Attorney’s Crime Prevention Strategies Committee.
Michael Josephson - Founder and president of the Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics and the Character Counts! Coalition. Mr. Josephson is a lead trainer for the Ethics in the Workplace seminars. He is one of the nation’s most sought-after ethicists, who, in addition to being widely quoted and featured in the news media, has conducted more than 1,000 programs for at least 100,000 leaders in government, the military, business, journalism, law, law enforcement, education, and the nonprofit community.
Special thanks to Stephanie Thacker, Deputy Chief, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Unit, United States Department of Justice; Robert Morgester, Special Crimes Unit, California Attorney General’s Office; Perry L. Segal; and the following members of the District Attorney’s Crime Prevention Strategies Committee: Dennis M. Benko, Robert A. Cook, Rickey Gelb, Marciano Hernandez, Alex Jacinto, Jim Leahy, Randal Lee, Marvin Minoff, and Anthony Willoughby.
P.O.K. was produced by the following members of the District Attorney’s Bureau of Community Relations:
Community Outreach Representative, writer, editor, researcher
Luis Alvarez,
Director, writer/editor and production manager Carol Baker,
Community Outreach Representative, researcher/editor and outreach coordinator Mark Delgado,
Graphic Artist, graphic design Dan LaVigne,
Graphics Unit Supervisor, graphic design management Alex Luna,
Webmaster, consultant, engineer John Stephens,
Copy editor Cyndi Voltz,
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Site updated: 20 Mar 2009
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