Protecting Our Children From Internet Predators

Protecting Our Children From Internet Predators

Robert C. Phillips
DDA (Ret.)
October, 2019

It is not disputed that our nation’s youth are amongst our most precious assets, to be guided, nurtured, and protected at all costs.  As such, a child’s inherent vulnerability to outside influences, good and bad, is a fact of life that cannot be ignored, must always be monitored, and, when necessary for the child’s wellbeing, at least controlled if not neutralized.  The advent of the Internet has only exacerbated the problem of insuring that our children are not exposed to adverse influences at least until they are mentally and emotionally mature enough to properly process them.

The Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act; Proposition 83:

On November 7, 2006, California’s electorate passed Proposition 83, enacting The Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act, also known as “Jessica’s Law.”  Proposition 83 was written, advertised as, and enacted as a means of protecting our children (among others) from sexual predators who, often through the phenomenon of a rapidly expanding Internet, have easy access to underage and vulnerable minors.[1]  “[T]he common purpose of the provisions of Proposition 83 is to protect Californians from the threat posed by sex offenders.”© 2026 Legal Updates, LLC.
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