Low income families in Hendry County still dealing with damage from Hurricane Wilma are getting some help. WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports.

Thousands of children in Florida are solicited for sex online every day - and one state official is making it his mission to put a dent in that number. WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports on how Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is entering phase three of his plan to fight cyber predators.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum unveiled what he’s calling his ‘Cybercrime Outreach Initiative’ Friday in Tampa. WGCU’s Mike Kiniry has more.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum unveiled a new ‘Cybercrime Outreach Initiative’ today. Friday.

He says the Initiative is mostly public outreach through a series of Public Service Announcements and a new website MySafeFlorida.net where kids and parents can learn about safely using the Internet.

He also thanked the Florida Legislature for passing the Cybercrimes Against Children Act of 2007 which provides funding to expand the current Cybercrimes Unit from 6 to 56 agents. And he described one of the 40 cases brought by the unit since its inception less than 2 years ago.

“One of those was a 40 year old attorney in the Panhandle who posed as a 15 year old girl, went on the Internet and induced 11 teenage boys to expose themselves and do all kinds of sexual acts on the webcam and then downloaded it. Those are the kinds of dangers when you’re a teenager…you’ve got to be thinking about who are you really talking to? Who are you really communicating with?”

About 77-million kids use the Internet every day in the United States. According to Attorney General McCollum 1 in 7 between the ages of 10 and 17 has been solicited for sex while surfing the ‘Net.