When Bill McCollum opted to seek re-election for Florida Attorney General over throwing his hat in the ring for Senate, happiness pulsated with every beat of my heart.
"Our team has made great strides combating internet child predators, gangs and mortgage and Medicaid fraud, and in providing consumer protection. But there is more to do," he said. "Unless circumstances change it is my intention, at the appropriate time, to announce that I will be seeking re-election as Florida’s Attorney General.”
Certainly sounds like he'll run on his record.
Because I'll be right here waving the most current research that took a bite out of Bill McCollum's cyber politics.
Old Bill signed on as member of "a task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem."
Turns out "Academics have identified a phenomenon that they call a “moral panic,” referring to situations in which the media and policymakers overreact to a perceive risk or threat that in fact is not as great it is popularly portrayed."
Policymakers like Bill.
Cyberbullying has been identified as a far more prevelant threat to minors.
Will Bill McCollum try to downplay his part in the creation of moral panic among Florida's parents? Most likely through the implementation of cyberbullying laws that I expect to sweep through the state legislature once they dig Florida out of the financial crater they've buried us all in.
And you know I'll be watching.
Read the research here.
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also take note he has done NOTHING concerning gangs except for enable their entrenchment within florida. Florida is currently experiencing the murders, selective prosecution and helter skelter law enforcement that occurs as a state or jurisdiction is taken over by gangs. New York, New Jersey, Detroit and other places are RUN by gangs disguised as judges and etc. This is exactly where florida will be soon.
Also, go here and say your piece.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2009/01/deputies-invest.html?cid=146756716#comment-146756716
What is his record for protecting children from child abuse? From Drugs?
now that we know this (what is in the report) will he close down some of the cyber offices he has opened with so much fan-fair and self promotion?It would be one place to start saving money that is needed in so many other places in this cash starved state of ours.D
read this.
bill mccollum's hiring practices and the hiring practices in all locales in florida have created family-run gangs within law enforcemnet.
It's VERY CLEAR
When you drive through south tampa you see the streets named for the families of all the FHpatrol, ALL of the spokesmodels for LEO (mcelroy, jetton, etc...)
we have father and son teams on the TPD, the tampa fire dept seven generations ... now the FHP is further revealed to have father and son teams performing illegal and selective busts while the person is still on the side of the road being given a traffic ticket. It's like they already KNEW what was in his cellphone. HEY. Kinda like they have MINE tapped.
Only in my case they threaten to PLANT drugs.
Or make sex offenders of my loved ones.
Or dish out some breast cancer, lung cancer, heart attacks. You see why I do not believe in diseases?
If you can be threatend with them certainly they can be 'caused'.
ALSO, off the subject but diabetes has become an entire industry. Everyone has diabetes.
Why can myself and a stranger see this but the intelligent populace as a whole seems to overlook it COMPLETELY?? Or deny it?
Because they haven't been effected yet?
D..
McC would never close down his cyber office on his own, but maybe due to "budget cuts" start down-sizing...or better yet, declare a cyber war on another front...kids bullying kids online.
I bet he's talking up a state lawmaker as we speak, trying to figure out how to get convicted bullies registered.
How do you know which attorney general's participated? Why are there only 49?
Yes! The AGs are listed in the report. Check out pages 4 and 5
here.
Some papers report all 50 AGs participating...but the 49 count is more widely reported.
Another point....I haven't heard too much about this study in the Florida papers. If anyone finds a link, pass it my way, please.
Here's the link to cut and paste if for some reason the above hyperlink doesn't go through.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/ISTTF_Final_Report-APPENDIX_A_Joint_Statement.pdf
Also, I do believe if McCollum continues to spend dollars hard pressed to find in Florida, I would think this research could prove very damaging to his accountability, causing his focus to look more like a "quest" rather than a law enforcement responsibility based on current information.
I already think Crist is trying to work through the back door at eliminating these laws, especially since 66 probation officers found themselves laid off because Charlie took his time with his line item veto. It will be in little ways like this that will take the punch out of these laws as these guys will NEVER admit they made a huge mistake that impacted many lives.
This is a very different political time. With Dems going after the hate monger voices, such a Limbaugh, my hope are that such disturbing divisive incitement will go the way of the dodo bird.
Such bullying keeps this society from advancing to be the people we are supposed to be.
http://www.csriu.org/PDFs/papredator.pdf
You really need to go to this link and read this. It appears the criticism the AGs are spewing about the Harvard study is based on old outdated data but read this study...I'd love to read your thoughts on this.
I'll read through it tonight and chime in tomorrow...but a brief skim through causes me to think some AGs are trying to explain the results away, even though the report findings stem from one of this country's most respected institutes of higher thinking.
Thanks for passing this along. How did you come across it?
Honestly, I stumbled across it.
I am looking forward to your thoughts and insights.
I enjoy reading your blog and only wished I could write as well as you and others I read.
Vox almost like the Daytona Beach chief yankie who said to on camara about gangs "my gang is bigger than yours" seems to be a growing trend here in heat getting to ya land.
that report(http://www.csriu.org/PDFs/papredator.pdf) is a keeper seems the AG's don't like to keep records and for good reason they would show about the same as the one AG's sponseared.in Penn they busted aprox.46 per year for internet contact (past 4 years) according to the press release ,press release from No. Carolina said the sponcered report was for looking into fighting child preds not bulling.and in this report it points that even if they used the outdated reports the ones from the past 10 years as well as the outdated ones are consistent. d
Hi Anon...
The report is priceless. Look for my post on Monday.
Hey D, the "outdated" information argument that the AGs cite would include Finkelhor, Boyd and Ybarra's research (among others) within the last year.
Funny how laws can be passed on outdated research but once the research disproves the underlying basis of the law, suddenly, it's outdated.
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