There are many in the government and our communities that are finally beginning to understand the serious implications of children using the Internet. There have been several attempts to manage the content that children see and they have failed for reasons of free speech and the inability to control the internationally operated Internet. The reality of Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator,” has caused a renewed effort to control the people that our children are exposed to as they surf the Information Super Highway.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — The darker corners of the Internet are to be exposed under the bright light of Brazil's sun next week when a UN conference on how the web is run gets underway.

Rio de Janeiro will from Monday host the UN Internet Governance Forum, in which 2,000 participants from 100 countries will examine ways to tackle pedophilia and cybercrime

Interpol president Jackie Selebi said Interpol would soon put in place a new system called I-LINK which would allow specialized crime investigators to instantly check and exchange information from the body's databases on terrorism, child exploitation, drugs and high-tech crime.

"The tools we have put in place have an almost unlimited potential to further strengthen global policing," he said.

"We must continue to anticipate future crime threats and act now to prevent now," he said.

Terrorism and human trafficking are also high on the agenda of the assembly, as well as the opening in Vienna next year of an Interpol anti-corruption school, the first world training body dedicated to the fight against graft.

Malaysia has "declared a war" on cyber predators who target children via chat rooms on the web, promising stricter laws and vigilance to tackle them.

The measure comes after a recent move by the police to publish the names of sex fiends in newspapers and on the web, after an eight-year-old girl was brutally murdered and found dumped inside a bag days after her abduction.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A man was arrested Wednesday morning at the Ohio Statehouse after authorities said he set up a meeting with a 14-year-old girl who he thought was visiting the building on a field trip.

According to police, Barry Mentser chatted with an officer posing as a teenage girl on the Internet for about a year before the meeting was arranged.

Ever since it unanimously overturned the Communications Decency Act a decade ago, the Supreme Court has pushed back against Congressional efforts to regulate Internet content.

Five years ago, for example, the court struck down the Child Pornography Prevention Act, which made it a crime to create, distribute or possess “virtual” child pornography that uses computer-generated images or young-looking adults rather than real children.

Predators who track children on the internet will soon have more police looking for them.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation will add five more positions to their Cyber Crime unit, the unit that analyzes photo and voice data to help identify online predators.

Pierson teen Victor Galarza's parents warned him to stay away from pornography when he uses the family laptop to surf Spanish-language Web sites like Univision.com.

Schoolmate Antonio Rodriguez says his parents told him only to stay away from "indecent" material on the Web.

Neither teen's parents, however, talked to them about Spanish-language social networking and chat sites, that, like their English language counterparts, are increasingly popular among teens -- and adults who want to meet them.

And while law enforcement authorities throughout the nation are pouring resources into baiting and arresting sexual predators who seek young victims through English-language sites, Spanish-language sites have received little attention.

Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa said police found hard drives containing hundreds of thousands of pornographic images at the home of Graham Hurley as well as a 72-inch television.

People could only get in or out of the second floor room containing the equipment by using a fingerprint identifying system.

An individual who possesses multiple images of child pornography on a computer can only be convicted of one count of possessing such images, the Court of Appeal for the Third District ruled yesterday.

The court ruled that nine of 10 counts on which Timothy Donald Hertzig was convicted of possessing child pornography under Penal Code Sec. 311.11 must be dismissed. The panel said Hertzig’s possession of 30 video images constituted only a single violation of the statute.