Sexting is a problem cropping up all over the country from Pennsylvania to Colorado... to Arkansas and now here in Alabama.
One local school district plans to ask parents how they can help them talk to their kids about this explosive new trend among teens.
Hoover City Schools is planning to meet with parents tomorrow to introduce them to sexting... the hope - give parents information on kids, their camera phones and not taking explicit photos with them.
Camera phones, we use them to talk to our friends, conduct business and store our precious memories but some teens are crossing the line by texting explicit photos of themselves and others. It's called sexting.
Hoover City Schools Intervention Counselor Marion Kellough said, "Some girls may be together at a slumber party, and they're begin silly and playing with their cell phones and taking pictures and never dreaming that that would end being sent out widespread to people they don't trust."
Kellough doesn't believe this is a widespread problem in the Hoover City School District but there have been some cases. School officials see sexting as a parent issue.
Kellough said, "These are things that are typically happening outside of school, the pictures are being taken outside of school and their typically being sent outside of school."
Some teens are already seeing the long term ramifications of sexting, once convicted they must register as sex offenders.
Kellough said, "There are some questions about how this is going to be handled legally, for the person who sends it out and for the person who's viewing that, if they're looking at inappropriate material on an electronic device."
The legal consequences of sexting continue to be debated in courtrooms and political circles.
The Vermont legislature decriminalized sexting between teens as long as it was voluntary. In those cases a teen wouldn't be charged with a felony and forced to register as a sex offender.
The Alabama legislature has not considered sexting legislation.
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