Carmel police officers in schools make videos to protect kids from cybercrimes – Hamilton …

By CAMILA FERNANDEZ WISH-TV | wishtv.com The Carmel Police Department (CPD) is coming up with creative ideas that will keep students safer online. A group of school resource officers have created a video that’s now part of “Truth Be Told,” a new series of internet safety videos created by CPD’s school resource officers. This week, they’re focusing on the dangers of Snapchat. “We’ve done one on TikTok. We’ve done one on Omegle, which was an older platform or an older app, but still prevalent,” said Sarah Livingston, a school resource officer. Carmel police Sgt. D.J. Schoeff, the supervisor of school resource officers, said “Parents today are looking for ways to learn how to engage their children – how to keep our kids safe in today’s modern-day communication.” Livingston says Snapchat is a fun app but can quickly turn dangerous. “Just grabbing your geolocation, privacy issues, and the big thing that I think we were concerned about is the quick-add feature, where you have these strangers just adding your children as friends and then they can snap back and forth without even knowing who this person really is,” Livingston said. Livingston, who is assigned to West Clay Elementary, works with Officer…
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