Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, during a recent congressional hearing on internet child safety, apologized to families of children harmed by social media platforms. But apologies aren’t enough. Social media companies have had ample opportunity to halt online child abuse and sexual exploitation. For more than a decade, they’ve refused to take decisive action. It’s time … Read more
Those vibrant dyes that color your Easter eggs, Gatorade, Fanta sodas, Doritos and candies such as Skittles might soon be deemed unsafe for kids at California public schools. After adopting a bill last year that outlaws four food additives statewide starting in 2027, California now is moving to ban more than half a dozen dyes … Read more
Those vibrant dyes that color your Easter eggs, Gatorade, Fanta sodas, Doritos, and candies like Skittles might soon be deemed unsafe for kids at California public schools. After adopting a bill last year that outlaws four food additives statewide starting in 2027, California now is moving to ban more than half a dozen dyes — … Read more
New York — When Raúl Torrez, then a young prosecutor in a rural New Mexico, was preparing one of his first child abuse cases, he went to his father for advice. Torrez expected his dad, a career prosecutor, to offer some tips about preparing evidence or addressing the jury. Instead, Presiliano Torrez asked: “Have you … Read more
Dozens of students gathered in Saratoga High School’s student center on Feb. 28 to participate in emergency lifesaving training. Unlike similar efforts in the past, the training wasn’t centered around chest compressions or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but on how to save someone from an opioid overdose. The event was part of an effort the Los Gatos … Read more
Ariel Cohen | CQ-Roll Call (TNS) Cases of measles are rising across the country and seem to be striking counties at random, but experts say there is one thing the public health system can do to turn the tide, and that’s to stem the post-pandemic vaccine lag and get parents to vaccinate their kids. General … Read more
As the winter sun rises behind him, Carlos Esteban Rios sits in a Costa Mesa parking lot, waiting for a ride from a boss he’s never met and looking over some chemistry homework he might never turn in. It’s a school day, Wednesday, Feb. 28, and Rios’ plan for the next few hours is this: … Read more
In nearly every Bay Area county, parents accused of abusing their children are kept out of the interview room when a social worker gets a court order to question their child. But not in Santa Clara County. Four social workers, including two supervisors, told the Bay Area News Group that, since at least 2021, they … Read more
SAN JOSE — On the last day of David Castro’s preliminary hearing Thursday, when the judge ruled there was enough evidence for him to stand trial, the prosecutor made it clear that Castro wasn’t being charged with murder in the fentanyl overdose death of his infant daughter, Phoenix. Instead, Castro is facing a felony child … Read more
Anna Claire Vollers | Stateline.org (TNS) The pitch feels noble, visceral: Prevent newborns from being discarded in dumpsters, and do it in a way that shields the mother and protects her anonymity while safeguarding the baby’s health and future. In a growing number of states, the answer to the rare occurrence of illegal infant abandonment … Read more