Presenter urges legislative fixes and criticizes platforms at Flossmoor parent meeting
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Retired detective Richard Mustoski used a Flossmoor SD 161 parent meeting to call for legislative changes to cyberbullying laws and to criticize platforms and Apple for limiting parental monitoring and platform reporting, urging parents to sign witness slips for Springfield.
At a Flossmoor SD 161 parent meeting, retired Detective Richard Mustoski urged parents to support legislative changes and criticized technology companies' practices related to child safety.
Mustoski said he has proposed (and will continue to pursue) changes to state law to broaden telephone-harassment statutes to include electronic communications and to strengthen school-resource-officer (SRO) certification requirements. "I'm gonna change it. I'm gonna repeal this one," he said when discussing an Illinois cyberbullying statute he characterized as too narrow to cover repeated online harassment that causes emotional distress.
He also criticized major platform and device companies for limiting law-enforcement access and parental monitoring. "Apple never reports to the national center," Mustoski said; he argued Apple does not allow real-time monitoring of iCloud backups in the way other companies do and described state-level legislative proposals to require parental-linked child accounts at setup. The presenter framed these remarks as his assessment and a reason he is pressing lawmakers to act; the meeting did not include platform representatives or district-level policy votes.
Mustoski invited parents to submit witness slips and to contact Springfield lawmakers about the measures he discussed. He described prior successful state-level measures (as he presented them) aimed at AI-generated child exploitation and said such legal tools could be extended to require technical changes from platform operators.
The meeting was primarily a presenter-led education session; Flossmoor SD 161 administrators hosted the event, provided handouts and offered the recording to parents who could not attend.