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Cuomo Signs Anti-Cyberbullying Bill Into Law
Monday, July 09, 2012 - 05:59 PM
By Karen DeWitt : NYS Public Radio/WXXI

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an anti-cyberbullying bill into law on Monday that requires schools to be more vigilant about the online harassment of students, and to take steps to prevent it.

Schools will now have to set up protocols to make it easier for students and their parents to report online harassment, and devise ways to stop bullies from being repeat offenders. School districts will have to develop bullying prevention plans and publicize them.

The law was passed by the legislature at the end of the legislative session in June.

“It's amazing to me the power of the negativity and how it can hurt a young person,” Cuomo said.

The new law is an amendment to the Dignity for All Students law approved in 2010 by then Governor David Paterson. Paterson, the state’s first legally blind governor, said he was bullied at school as a child.  

Jay Worona, general counsel for the New York State School Boards Association, says schools welcome both laws, and hope they help to change a culture that or too long did not react to bullying.

“Our schools for some time have been trying to ensure that are children are safe,” Worona said. “They didn’t necessarily need a law to tell them what we are sadly seeing on the front pages of our newspapers.”........................>>>>........................>>>>........................http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/empire/2012/jul/09/cuomo-signs-anti-cyberbullying-bill-law/

OMG!!! see what we have created....government/church

This is way to far, once again big brother coming into our homes to protect the children.... Over and over again we lose freedoms to "protect the children". What a crock of sh*t.

Evidently the parents can't control it....the schools/educators can't control it.....so the government has to!!! The government hasn't forced it's way into our lives.........society has invited them!

WELCOME!!

Cuomo is a bully.