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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 486 

Designating June 2006 as ‘‘National Internet Safety Month’’. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 22, 2006 

Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. CRAIG, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. 

VITTER, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mrs. DOLE, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. BURNS, Mrs. LINCOLN, Mr. WARNER, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. SANTORUM, and 

Mr. DEWINE) introduced the following resolution; which was considered 

and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Designating June 2006 as ‘‘National Internet Safety 

Month’’. 

Whereas, in the United States, more than 90 percent of children between the ages of 5 years old and 17 years old, 

or approximately 47,000,000 children, now use computers; 

Whereas approximately 59 percent of children in that age 

group, or approximately 31,000,000 children, use the 

Internet; 

Whereas approximately 26 percent of the children of the 

United States in grades 5 through 12 are online for more 

than 5 hours a week; 


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Whereas approximately 12 percent of those children spend 

more time online than they spend interacting with their 

friends; 

Whereas approximately 53 percent of the children and teens 

of the United States like to be alone when ‘‘surfing’’ the 

Internet; 

Whereas approximately 29 percent of those children believe 

that their parents would express concern, restrict their 

Internet use, or take away their computer if their parents 

knew which sites they visited while surfing on the Internet; 

Whereas approximately 32 percent of the students of the 

United States in grades 5 through 12 feel that they have 

the skills to bypass protections offered by the installation 

of filtering software; 

Whereas approximately 31 percent of the youths of the 

United States have visited an inappropriate website on 

the Internet; 

Whereas approximately 18 percent of those children have visited an inappropriate website more than once; 

Whereas approximately 51 percent of the students of the 

United States in grades 5 through 12 trust the individuals that they chat with on the Internet; 

Whereas approximately 33 percent of the students of the 

United States in grades 5 through 12 have chatted on 

the Internet with an individual whom they have not met 

in person; 

Whereas approximately 11.5 percent of those students have 

later met with a stranger with whom they chatted on the 

Internet; 


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Whereas approximately 39 percent of the youths of the 

United States in grades 5 through 12 have admitted to 

giving out their personal information, including their 

name, age, and gender, over the Internet; and 

Whereas approximately 14 percent of those youths have received mean or threatening email while on the Internet: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) designates June 2006 as ‘‘National Internet 

3 Safety Month’’; 

4 (2) recognizes that National Internet Safety 

5 Month provides the citizens of the United States 

6 with an opportunity to learn more about— 

7 (A) the dangers of the Internet; and 

8 (B) the importance of being safe and re9 sponsible online; 

10 (3) commends and recognizes national and com11 munity organizations for— 

12 (A) promoting awareness of the dangers of 

13 the Internet; and 

14 (B) providing information and training 

15 that develops critical thinking and decision16 making skills that are needed to use the Inter17 net safely; and 

18 (4) calls on Internet safety organizations, law 

19 enforcement, educators, community leaders, parents, 

20 and volunteers to increase their efforts to raise the 


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1 level of awareness for the need for online safety in 

2 the United States. 

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