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Local News Police Car (KPRC/Click2Houston.com) MAGNOLIA, Texas – A Montgomery County Precinct 5 deputy has resigned after an internal investigation found he violated department policies by sharing protected information and operating his patrol vehicle in an unsafe manner. The Precinct 5 Constable’s Office announced Tuesday that its investigation into allegations against former Deputy Dallas Jarwin concluded that policy violations did occur. “Thank you for your patience while we conducted our Internal Investigation,” Chief Chad Walling said in an email to KPRC 2. “The investigation into the allegations against Deputy Dallas Jarwin revealed that there were in fact Montgomery County Precinct 5 Constable policy violations for sharing protected information and operating his patrol vehicle in an unsafe manner.” According to the constable’s office, the investigation was completed Monday. Officials said Jarwin resigned from the department at the conclusion of the investigation. “We work hard to maintain the trust from our community,” the agency said, adding that it appreciated the public’s patience while investigators completed their review. The investigation began after 22-year-old Raven Walker said Jarwin shared photos of her, including an image of her driver’s license containing personal information, on Snapchat after arresting her during a traffic stop. Walker told KPRC

June 30 (Reuters) – TikTok has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a teenager who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, a spokesperson for the plaintiff’s law firm said Tuesday. The settlement was reached in principle, but ​the details have not yet been finalized, according to a spokesperson for ‌Morgan & Morgan, which represents the plaintiff, a 15-year-old boy from Florida known by his initials R.K.C. TikTok representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment. R.K.C.’s case is expected to be the second trial in California state court over claims social media platforms have been designed to be addictive to children, ‌spurring ​a youth mental health crisis. R.K.C., who started using social ⁠media when he was about 8, ⁠said he became addicted to it, losing sleep and suffering from depression and anxiety, according to court filings. He originally named four defendants in his lawsuit — Google’s YouTube, Meta’s Instagram, Snap Inc’s Snapchat and ByteDance’s TikTok. YouTube settled in June, while ​Meta and Snapchat remain scheduled for a trial set to kick off July 27. THOUSANDS OF CASES More than 3,300 lawsuits involving addiction claims against social media companies are ⁠pending in California state court. Another 2,600 cases

A Round Lake Park man who has been a registered sex offender for several years pleaded guilty Monday in McHenry County in a new case with a new victim involving a similar offense to the one that previously landed him on the registry. Anthony D. Morales, who turns 32 Tuesday, pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child younger than 17 years, a Class 2 felony, according to court records and a news release from the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s office. Judge Tiffany Davis sentenced Morales to 10 years in prison, court records show. His prison time will be followed by four years of mandatory supervised release. He must follow conditions of the sex offender registration act for the rest of his life. Following his arrest last year in the McHenry County case, prosecutors said he had committed “the exact same crime” to which he’d pleaded guilty in Lake County and which landed him on the sex offender registry. He was still serving probation on the Lake County conviction when he was charged in the McHenry County case, records show. That offense occurred in Vernon Hills and involved a 15-year-old child, according to courtroom testimony. In the McHenry

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Australia's teen social media ban has been in effect since December, and the government's verdict on how it's going is pretty clear: not well enough. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced this week that Australia will double the maximum penalty for violating its social media minimum age law, raising the fine ceiling from $AUD49.5 million ($US33 million) to $AUD99 million ($US68.2 million). The government is also moving to expand the eSafety Commissioner's powers to compel platforms to hand over evidence of what they're actually doing to keep under-16s off their services. The news comes roughly six months after Australia's Online Safety Amendment Act took effect, banning platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, X, and YouTube from allowing users under 16 to hold accounts, as Mashable previously reported. More than five million accounts have been removed, deactivated, or restricted since Dec. 10 — but according to Albanese, that's not good enough. Mashable Light Speed "It is clear that social media platforms are adopting tricks straight out of the big tech playbook and doing the bare minimum to get by," said Minister for Communications Anika Wells in the government's statement. The eSafety Commissioner is currently investigating potential non-compliance across five platforms: Facebook, Instagram

News The Snapchat logo is displayed on a phone screen. (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty Images)  By Arianna Hooker  June 28, 2026 at 6:00am Parents of a Missouri teenager sued Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, Wednesday alleging the platform bears some responsibility for their 12-year-old daughter’s rape.Social Media Victims Law Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs alleging that the social media company has refused to disable dangerous features or warn parents of the harm they could cause, according to CBS. “This assault did not happen in a vacuum- it happened because Snapchat’s product design made it easy for a predator to reach out and manipulate an unsuspecting child,” Matthew Bergman, founder of Social Media Victims Law Center said, according to the outlet. “Snap executives have long known that their features create a perfect environment for predators to exploit children, yet they have repeatedly failed to make the platform safe.” Snapchat did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. The minor victim, referred to by the initials J.F. in the lawsuit, began using Snapchat in 2021 when she was 11 years old. The app requires users to be at least 13, however, the

Getty Images The Australian government has announced it will double the maximum penalty for breaches of the nation's social media minimum age law to $99m (£51.7m). As part of the updated legislation, the eSafety Commissioner will also be able to compel social media companies to provide evidence of what steps they have taken to comply with the ban. Children under the age of 16 have been prevented from 10 key social media platforms in Australia since 10 December 2025, but it has been widely acknowledged that many are still able to access and use the banned apps. Investigations have been opened into the alleged non-compliance of five banned platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube. Though Australia's ban was brought in late last year with huge fanfare, it has been difficult for the Australian government to enforce. In its own report, the eSafety Commission, which is the nation's independent regulator, said that seven out of 10 children aged under 16 who had a social media account before the ban still had "some access". In its statement on Saturday, the government acknowledged some of these challenges, and said the harsher penalties were evidence that it was "doubling down on platforms that

Predator sentenced for breaching strict order put in place to protect youngsters A convicted paedophile has been jailed again after he was caught downloading Snapchat on his phone. Luke Townend was under an oppressive sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) that prevents him from using social media. It formed part of a three-year jail sentence he received last year for sexually communications with a boy. The 26-year-old was put before Leeds Crown Court this week, appearing over a video link from HMP Leeds, having been returned to prison on licence to complete that three-year sentence. He was also handed a new sentence, to be served consecutively. Townend (pictured) was jailed for downloading the Snapchat app. | WYP / PA Prosecutor Emily Jenkins said he had been given a factory-resetted phone in January. Esafe software was installed by the police to allow his use to be monitored. But an alert was sent to officers three months later suggesting Towned had accessed Snapchat. He was arrested on April 28 and his phone seized. It was found he had used a credit card to pay for a subscription to Snapchat Plus. During his police interview, Townend fully admitted the breach. He has five previous

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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and his wife, model Miranda Kerr, gifted $550 million to the non-profit, Undue Medical Debt, to pay off medical bills for over 250,000 Californians. The couple shared the news on social media. “One of the reasons we wanted to share this directly is because if you happen to receive a letter in the mail letting you know your medical debt has been forgiven, we want you to know it's real,” Kerr said. “Medical debt can be a burden that lasts long after a health crisis has passed,” Spiegel said. Marisa Clemente, who serves as vice-president of philanthropy for the non-profit, called the donation “transformative.” “For us, we think that, you know, nobody should have to choose between their health and paying their bills, and no one should go broke just because they got sick, right?” she said. “It's the one debt that people don't ask for, and it's something that people cannot control.” Clemente added that those who had their debt paid off will get their letters in mid-July. More than 17,000 people in L.A. County are expected to get those letters. Follow KNX News 1070 AM Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok