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A Guide to myspace.com for School Administrators, Guidance Counselors and Teachers
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Sgt. Corey MacDonald, Esq. joined MYSPACE.COM as a school resource officer last fall and was on the website for the school year. In this DVD Sgt. MacDonald relates his experiences, points out dangers, points to where school personnel can gain valuable information about its students by a presence on the site. He talks about the reasons he went on MYPACE.COM as a police officer and not undercover. He demonstrates the value to school administrators, guidance counselors and teachers to know what their students are doing on myspace.com He will give an online line demonstration how to sign up and register your own place on MYSPACE.COM

 

Sgt. Macdonald recounts his experiences on myspace.com in a DVD presentation that features:

 

WHAT is myspace.com

WHY school officials should participate on myspace.com

WHAT are to the dangers present on myspace.com

HOW to register on myspace.com

HOW to navigate myspace.com

WHAT schools can do to monitor myspace.com

HOW to find the identity of people registered on myspace.com

HOW to identify troubled teens on myspace.com

WHERE to look for evidence of a crime on myspace.com

WHERE to find good intelligence on myspace.com

LEARN basic safety for interacting on myspace.com

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1. Getting Started

a) MySpace – the premier online social networking site.

b) Who can be an online investigator?

2. Using MySpace for Investigative Purposes

a) Detect evidence of past/present crimes.

b) Identify at-risk youth; monitor social behavior.

c) Conduct counter intelligence.

d) Monitor gang and hate group recruiting.

e) Monitor your own children’s activity.

f) Proactively police pedophiles.

3. Why are Youth Drawn to MySpace?

a) A false perception of anonymity

b) Chance to portray an image

c) Little to no supervision

4. Dangers

a) On-line predators

b) False sites: pornography/identity theft

c) Gang and hate group recruitment

5. Establish an Open or Closed Site

a) Open site considerations

i. tool to attract information; identifies who you are.

ii. Mandatory reporter considerations

iii. Department/school permission

iv. Proper security features/documentation

b) Closed site considerations

i. Undercover site; may violate MySpace’s TOS.

ii. Requires supervisor’s cooperation; two sets of eyes;

one person to run the site/one to monitor.

6. Investigations

a) Tracking conversations

b) Saving/printing comments and pictures

c) How active is site?

d) Link to commercial site; pornography, web cams.

e) Multiple pages – one user may have multiple pages.

7. Seizing Information

a) 4th Amendment protects MySpace privacy.

b) Electronic Communications Privacy Act governs

ability to disclose information. Requires government

process to release information, to include subpoenas,

court orders, search warrants.

8. Time Guidelines for Obtaining Information

a) Time guidelines for retrieving: basic user identity

information, stored files, general info; IP address logs;

private user communications; private sent messages;

private messages in trash; deleted accounts.

9. How Long Will MySpace Preserve Records?

10. How to Build a Closed Site

11. Gang Recruitment

12. Emergency Disclosures

a) What information can MySpace disclose to a

fed/state/local government entity?

b) When is emergency disclosure warranted?

14. Introducing MySpace Evidence

a) Admissions; what may be used in court to show guilt.

b) Foundation; who found the evidence, what training

did they have, who saved/printed page (chain of custody).

15. MySpace Resources