AG’s investigator speaks on cyber threats to children

New Albany, MS-  Union County and New Albany public school teachers, administrators and parents learned about the dangers to young people of various digital communications platforms Tuesday evening, Nov. 1.

Among those present were Union County Superintendent of Education Ken Basil and UC Assistant Superintendent Windy Faulkner. Lecia Stubblefield Director of Curriculum, Federal Programs and Transportation for the New Albany School District was present for the meeting, which was held in the Cine Theater of the Magnolia Civic Center in New Albany.

They listened as Mississippi Attorney-General’s (AG) office cyber crimes investigator, Jay Houston, talked about the threat to students of Internet predators. Houston is chief of the AG’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which formed in 2013. He described the work his investigative unit does to find and arrest Internet sex predators.

Houston spent two days in Union County this week. In addition to the Tuesday evening meeting at the Cine he spoke to students at New Albany Middle School Tuesday morning, at the New Albany Kiwanis Club meeting at noon, and at New Albany High School in the afternoon.

Wednesday he spoke to students at Union County’s East Union and West Union Attendance Centers in the morning and the county school district’s Myrtle and Ingomar campuses in the afternoon.