SRO Cyberbullying & Digital Safety 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A student reports that someone created a fake social media profile using her photo and name to post embarrassing content. This behavior is best classified as:
- Catfishing
- Impersonation cyberbullying (Correct answer)
- Doxxing
- Flaming
Correct answer: Impersonation cyberbullying
Creating a fake profile using another person's identity to harass or embarrass them is impersonation, a recognized form of cyberbullying.
Question 2: Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), websites must obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under what age?
- 16
- 18
- 13 (Correct answer)
- 15
Correct answer: 13
COPPA requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal data from children under age 13.
Question 3: An SRO receives a report that a student has been sending repeated threatening messages via a gaming platform's chat feature. Which step should the SRO take FIRST?
- Arrest the sender immediately
- Preserve evidence by documenting screenshots and platform details (Correct answer)
- Contact the gaming company's legal team
- Suspend the victim's gaming account for safety
Correct answer: Preserve evidence by documenting screenshots and platform details
Preserving evidence is the critical first step to support any investigation or referral to law enforcement.
Question 4: Which of the following BEST describes 'sexting' in the context of school-based digital safety?
- Sending hate speech via email
- Electronically transmitting sexually explicit images or messages (Correct answer)
- Posting fake rumors about classmates online
- Hacking into another student's account
Correct answer: Electronically transmitting sexually explicit images or messages
Sexting refers to the electronic transmission of sexually explicit images or messages, which can carry serious legal consequences when minors are involved.
Question 5: A parent demands that the school delete all online content posted by another student that targeted their child. An SRO should advise the parent that content removal authority primarily rests with:
- The school principal
- The SRO's law enforcement agency
- The platform or service hosting the content (Correct answer)
- The district IT department
Correct answer: The platform or service hosting the content
Social media platforms control their own content and are the primary entity with authority to remove posts, though law enforcement can issue legal demands.
Question 6: When educating students about digital footprints, an SRO should emphasize that:
- Content deleted from a phone is permanently removed from the internet
- Online activity can persist and affect future opportunities even after deletion (Correct answer)
- Only law enforcement can access deleted social media posts
- Private messages are fully protected from school review
Correct answer: Online activity can persist and affect future opportunities even after deletion
Digital footprints can persist through screenshots, caches, and server logs long after users believe content has been deleted.
Question 7: Which legal concept allows schools to regulate off-campus student speech, including online posts, when it causes a substantial disruption to the school environment?
- Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) standard (Correct answer)
- FERPA protections
- Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule
- COPPA compliance requirement
Correct answer: Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) standard
The Tinker standard permits schools to restrict student speech that causes or is reasonably forecast to cause substantial disruption to the school environment.
SRO Cyberbullying & Digital Safety 2
A student reports that someone created a fake social media profile using her photo and name to post embarrassing content.
This behavior is best classified as: