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The Office of School Safety was created out of SB 23-241 as of July 1, 2023.  This expansion has opened multiple positions and created opportunities to support the schools in Colorado.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has created a new online video titled Sextortion: What It Is and Why You Need to Know About It.  

The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory has released this public statement that "calls attention to the growing concerns about the effects of social media on youth mental health."

Read the U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory's full public statement.

View this new article from TechCrunch+ on ChatGPT.  "It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity" and can be very useful for good or negative activities.  

Since AI is never going away, it's best to stay aware and up to date on what is available and being utilized.

On April 13, 2023, Vice.com released an article about computer generated AI voice swatting calls.

The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) has released "a video which highlights the findings and implications of its research on school violence prevention based upon the study Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools (2021)"

In response to SB20-023 and HB22-1274, the School Safety Working Group has been formed and work has begun. This interagency working group of state offices will be inventorying their school safety resources, looking for gaps in services and finding ways to increase transparency so that schools know what resources the state provides.

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Safe and Sound Schools has released multiple resource toolkits with the message "We will not give up working for the future our children deserve, a future where every student, every teacher, and every community is truly safe and sound."

Channel 9 News has released this article stating that a study finds poor air quality in school dramatically improves with filters.

"CU engineers said it would cost school districts less than the cost of a textbook per child per year to put in the air-purifiers."