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Seth's Law According To Cyberbullying In The Garden States

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approaches to cyberbullying which is harassment, defamatory label and publishing intimate images without consent. If a person harassing another person in a way of giving fear to their safety they could be charge with harassment even though they did not intend of to frighten them, they could be charged up to 10 years imprisonment. A person can be charge defamatory label by the victim by harming their reputation in any way of shape of form, they could be charge 5 years of imprisonment. Lastly, a person can be charge of publishing intimate images without consent by intentionally spreading nude image containing a person private parts which includes his/her genitals or anal region or her breasts or is engaged in explicit sexual activity. With these …show more content…

This law states that schools can suspend or permanently expel offenders based on each individual case. In addition, California state legislature passed the first law to deal directly with cyber-bullying. The legislation was named Assembly Bill 86 2008 and the purpose of bill was that it would add provisions related to bullying committed through an electronic communication device or system. In Maryland, they decided to look in detail at cyber-bullying and broadened its' definition. In New Jersey, the Garden State has always maintained tough legislation against bullying. In Idaho, its lawmakers passed a law that allowed staff of the school, especially officials, to suspend students that were using a computer or another electronic device to harass specific …show more content…

While this kind of incident happens through the web that provides anonymity to these people, they create fake profiles for the purpose of being hidden to the people in order to bully people in social websites like Facebook or post videos on YouTube with no worry of getting caught. In reality, is there anybody we can put blame on for these incidents? Our digital media, most of the times shows violence and this include showing uncensored materials on the news television while some kids might be watching it and this does not help to overcome this problem. Because of this example or how they see the world right now, children and teens become so familiar with the idea of violence and they might think of it as the normal doing. Some parents on the whole are not familiar with the idea of cyber-bullying and this reason they are not able to protect their kids from this risk of being cyber bullied. If you really think about it, it’s not really their fault if they can’t cope up that fast as technology advancing. If you really look into it, kids or young teens this days in general do not usually talk to their parents about their problems at school and that makes it very difficult for the parents to help their children. Our children should have some knowledge about cyber-bullying in order for them to fight it

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