Pupil safety: sextortion informational poster.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
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Overview
This bill requires California schools serving grades 7-12 to display posters in restrooms warning students about sextortion. These posters must be in both English and a language spoken by at least 15% of the school’s students and include information about sextortion, reporting resources, and suicide prevention hotlines. The California Department of Education will provide a model poster template to assist schools with implementation.
Key provisions
- Requires school districts and charter schools (grades 7-12) to display sextortion awareness posters.
- Posters must be in English and a language spoken by at least 15% of the student population.
- Posters must include information about sextortion, reporting resources, and suicide prevention hotlines.
- The Department of Education will create a model poster template.
- Restroom locations: at least one poster in each men’s, women’s, and all-gender restroom.
- Poster size: at least 12 by 18 inches.
- Includes a URL/QR code to online resources from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
- Defines ‘sextortion’ as the threat to use intimate images to compel someone to engage in sexual acts.
Who is affected
- School districts
- County offices of education
- Charter schools
- Students in grades 7-12
- Parents and guardians
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