By Katy Murphy
Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 4:51 pm in politics, safety and discipline, violence.
Bullying is grounds for suspension or expulsion in California, whether it’s done face to face or through electronic media. And if there was any doubt that Facebook and other social networks came under the state’s definition of electronic media, there isn’t anymore.
Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose) introduced the Cyber Bully Prevention bill, AB 746, this year. Not surprisingly, it won bipartisan support and faced little opposition before Gov. Jerry Brown signed it on Friday, according to anews release from Campos’s office. (I wouldn’t imagine many politicians would vote against an anti-bullying bill, even if they didn’t like it, though some did.)
The new rule takes effect in January. Here it is: Cyber bully prevention law
Does anyone at your school or your child’s school monitor social networks? Have
