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Local resident offers free family cybersecurity training to protect children online
Summary
During public comment, Joshua Adi (Guardian Tech Alliance) urged the city to support educational awareness training for families to reduce online exploitation and cyberbullying, offering free sessions for parents and caregivers.
During the public comment period on March 9, resident Joshua Adi, who identified himself as vice president of Guardian Tech Alliance and with ties to Willie Systems, urged the council to support free educational awareness training for families to protect children from online predators, cyberbullying and human trafficking.
Adi, an immigrant from Nigeria who said he works in cybersecurity for industrial control systems, described seeing young people harmed by online predation and urged parents to learn how to monitor and use phones to protect children rather than take devices away. He said his group offers free training and proposed working with schools and families across the community.
"Prevention is better than cure," Adi said, urging a community-wide effort to teach parents how to use the same technologies that can prey on children to instead protect them.
Councilmembers thanked him for his offer; no formal action was taken during the meeting on his proposal.
