CHILD SAFETY ACT
a model state statute
INTRODUCTION
What Does This Statute Do?
- The Child Safety Act protects minor children from some distinctive harms of interactive computer services. These services enable strangers to make intimate contact with children, to solicit them, and to share inappropriate materials with them--all without parental consent or even knowledge.
- The statute therefore secures parental consent.
- Although the statute does not limit expression on interactive computer services, it limits them from sharing some especially extreme types of expression with children.
- It is drafted with care to be entirely constitutional and compatible with Section 230.
What Is Included on This Website?
- Drafts of the statute in Word and PDF files
- A legislative memo summarizing the statute
Draft Statute in a Word file
Child Safety Act - WORD (docx)
DownloadDraft Statute in a PDF file
Child Safety Act - PDF (pdf)
DownloadLegislative Memo
Child Safety Act -- Memo (pdf)
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