Project L E Friends
The name of the organization is Kids Come First. It is an Internet Safety organization working in conjunction with Law Enforcement. They conduct Internet Safety seminars educating children about the dangers they may encounter when online and who to contact if they are approached by an online predator.
They have started a new program called
“Project LE Friends." They have gone through all Law Enforcement MySpace accounts, personally contacting them to verify that they are legitimate, and obtaining permission to place them on MySpace LE Friends list located in their blog section. They are encouraging children to add these agencies to their top friends list on their MySpace accounts.
This may serve as a deterrent to online predators as well as a contact should they be appropriately solicited.
As an added benefit of their verification process, they are finding fraudulent MySpace accounts and advising Law Enforcement that they are being misrepresented.
They are also contacting Sheriff’s Departments throughout the country, and asking them to also link their home pages to the Myspace page as a legitimate source of help as well.
You can visit their website at
http://www.kidscomefirstonline.org/ for more information about the organization and Project LE Friends. Their Myspace links are
http://www.myspace.com/innosed and
http://www.myspace.com/kidscomefirstnc