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Grand Island workshop: Secret Service, students and superintendent urge parents to tighten device settings and talk with kids
Summary
Superintendent Brian Graham and U.S. Secret Service analysts outlined recent local cases of online enticement and offered concrete steps—owning devices, using parental controls, checking 'My Eyes Only' and hidden apps—to help parents protect children; students described how limits improved school interactions.
Grand Island Central School District Superintendent Brian Graham opened a parent workshop in the school auditorium and online, saying the session’s focus was "keeping kids safe" after three local incidents involving students prompted the district to host outside investigators and student panelists.
The event featured two U.S. Secret Service speakers—Danielle Kingston, an investigative analyst with the Buffalo field office, and Tom Barilari, a network intrusion forensic analyst—who described recent cases of sextortion, grooming and missing-student investigations and gave step-by-step advice for parents. "But what I'm getting at is we don't know what our children are doing online," Kingston told the audience, urging parents to maintain open lines of communication and periodic device checks.
Why it matters: Speakers said the consequences of unmonitored online activity can be severe, ranging from financial fraud to…
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