Keeping Our Kids Safe Online Act, 2026
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- Creates the Keeping Our Kids Safe Online Act, 2026, requiring the Minister to set up an Online Safety Advisory Committee within 60 days
- Committee must include parents, youths, education workers, school board members and social media experts
- Committee will study other jurisdictions and develop a plan to ban social media and AI chatbots in schools, with possible accessibility exceptions
- Committee must create K-12 curricula on digital citizenship, online safety and artificial intelligence literacy, including misinformation, mental health and environmental harms
- Committee must recommend ways to hold tech and social media companies accountable for harms like gambling, pornography, trafficking and misinformation
- Committee must recommend funding and training for children's mental health organizations to address technology addiction
- Minister must report to the Assembly and publish annual public reports on progress implementing the recommendations, and must use the Committee's curricula when setting Education Act curriculum guidelines