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• Kids and their phones and computers

  I feel the need to clarify some of my personal beliefs. Many people assume their children are in danger of unknown subjects lurking on the Internet in an effort to lure their child in to meeting them. It has been my experience, depending on the age of Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:04 PM by Jeff Brown | 0 Comments

• Our Kids

  To summarize my last several posts, I would urge any parent that discovers an inappropriate relationship to report it to the agency having jurisdiction. Remember the first and foremost priority for everyone involved is the safety of the child. The second Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:34 PM by Jeff Brown | 0 Comments Filed under: radar, cyber, monitor, safety, child safety, predators, child predators, instant messaging, monitoring

• See How They Chat – Part 2

  James N. Brown, J.D. Detective - Retired In See How They Chat – Part 1 , I presented an actual online chat that I had with a potential predator during a training session. The entire conversation lasted only seven minutes. In that short time, the predator Read More... Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 7:10 PM by Detective James Brown | 0 Comments

• See How They Chat – Part 1

  James N. Brown, J.D. Detective - Retired In my next two blogs, I’m going to share with you the nature of a chat between a predator and a potential child victim. I believe it is important for everyone, but especially parents, to understand how aggressive Read More... Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:14 PM by Detective James Brown | 1 Comments

• To monitor or not to monitor

  I have given many talks on the benefits of monitoring your children and have discussed, often time at length, the reasons for monitoring your kids. Usually the parent will start out with something along the lines of….well my kids are not like that, or… Read More... Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:16 PM by Jeff Brown | 0 Comments Filed under: radar, monitor, child safety, predators, child predators, text messaging, instant messaging, monitoring

• More Info.

  It has been my experience that a teenager involved in an inappropriate relationship will often only reveal only a small part of the relationship, and again this depends on the extent of the relationship. Sometimes you have a teenage child that has had Read More... Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 9:50 PM by Jeff Brown | 0 Comments Filed under: safety, child safety, predators, mobile phones, child predators, instant messaging, monitoring

• Additional information:

  If the communication between your child and the suspect is strictly via the Internet or through a cell phone then it is easier to control then if the subject is a teacher or otherwise close to the victim on a daily basis. Depending how the relationship Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:40 PM by Jeff Brown | 0 Comments Filed under: radar, cyber, monitor, safety, child safety, predators, child predators, instant messaging

• A RADAR Christmas Poem to Ponder

  James N. Brown, J.D. Detective - Retired ‘Twas the morning of Christmas and all through the house, Every creature was stirring, including the mouse. The stockings were torn from the chimney with abandon, The cacophony of noise sounded like a cannon. And Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:45 PM by Detective James Brown | 0 Comments

• Did She…Or Didn’t She? – Part II

  James N. Brown, J.D. Detective - Retired In my last blog I discussed the case of Joelle Ogletree, a Texas high school teacher who was accused by three of her students of having sexual misconduct with them. Ogletree was indicted by a grand jury in 2003. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:35 PM by Detective James Brown | 0 Comments

• Now what!

  How to proceed, as a parent, once the relationship is discovered? It basically depends on the relationship between the child and the suspect. If the child and the suspect have normal daily contact, i.e. the suspect is a teacher or a coach maybe even a Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:19 PM by Jeff Brown | 0 Comments Filed under: cyber, monitor, safety, child safety, predators, monitoring