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When the Supreme Court issued its ruling blocking enforcement of the 1998 "Child Online Protection Act" (June 2004), responsibility for shielding children and youth from web pornography and violence moved back to focusing on the need to educate children, youth, parents and teachers about surfing the web safely.

INTERNET EDUCATION
The following sites provide a variety of information for helping everyone surf the Internet safely.

GetNetWise
Internet resources for online safety information.
http://www.getnetwise.org

Guidelines for Parents
http://www.safekids.com/parent_guidelines.htm

Kid's Rules for Online Safety
http://www.safekids.com/kidsrules.htm

Teen Safety on the Information Highway
http://web4j1.lane.edu/safety/teentoc.html

Online Safety Tips
http://www.staysafeonline.com

NetMom
A compendium of great sites.
http://www.netmom.com

NetSmartz
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource that teaches kids and teens how to stay safer on the Internet.
http://www.netsmartz.org

SafeKids
Tips, advice and suggestions to make your family's online experience fun and productive.
http://www.safekids.com

Safe Teens
A place for parents and teens to learn how to use the Internet safely. No preaching, just good advice.
http://www.safeteens.com/

CHILD-SAFE SEARCH ENGINES
To reduce the likelihood of encountering unwanted material, use these child safe search engines.

Ask For Kids
A natural language search engine that is filtered. By natural language, you can enter in questions like "why is the sky blue."
http://www.askforkids.com/

Yahoo! Kids
A database of about 20,000 sites that are kid safe. You can search or select from a directory.
http://kids.yahoo.com/

Education World
A database of 56,000 sites.
http://www.education-world.com/

KidsClick
Put together by librarians for kids.
http://www.kidsclick.org/

OTHER USEFUL LINKS

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
Learn about ways to prevent abduction and to report missing children.
http://www.ncmec.org

CyberTipLine
Where to report the exploitation of children online.
http://www.cybertipline.com

Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth
http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/statistics.htm