COLUMBUS, OH., (Indiana's NewsCenter)--- Cyberbullying has Ohio legislatures and local school officials scrambling for a solution.
The Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate both have new bullying legislation in their education committees calling for schools to provide a policy against cyberbullying, which the house bill defines as “harassment, intimidation, or bullying by electronic means.”
The legislation also extends control to public schools to discipline students engaging in such behavior off school property if it disrupts the academic environment. This includes if the actions are not done electronically.
Both bills are called The Jessica Logan Act named after a Cincinnati girl who hanged herself in 2008 after being bullied when her ex-boyfriend sent naked pictures of her to peers from his cell phone.
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