[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5785]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN AGAINST INTERNET PREDATORS

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, last month I was proud to be part of an 
important announcement concerning the safety of our children. And 
thanks to the tremendous generosity of Quest Foundation, the National 
Center For Missing and Exploited Children was able to establish 
netsmartz411.org, a first of its kind online service.
  NetSmartz411 provides a direct line for experts at the National 
Center for Concerned Parents. Through this program, questions and 
concerns about online safety can be answered quickly and accurately. We 
are all too familiar with stories of Internet predators making their 
way into our homes with the simple click of a mouse. More and more 
teenagers are joining social networking Web sites and roaming the 
Internet freely, with little or no adult supervision. These Web sites 
have given predators the freedom to search for pictures, ages, even 
nearby schools. By empowering more parents than ever before, 
NetSmartz411 will reinforce our efforts to make the Internet a safer 
place.
  So for those who want more infor-
mation, my colleagues, and would 
like to find that out, please 
visit www.netsmartz411.org, or www.missingkids.com.

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