Crime & Safety

Tips to Keep Kids Safe on Halloween

A local organization that focuses on child safety has released a list of basic stranger safety tips.

Long Island-based Rose Brucia Educational Foundation, an organization designed to stop child abductions, has released a list of basic stranger tips to help families before kids head out to trick-or-treat this year.

Here are the tips:

- Do not go trick-or-treating alone. Bring someone with you and use the buddy system.

- Never go to houses that are not well-lit.

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- Try not to wander ahead of your group even though you are excited.

- Always have an adult check your treats before you eat them

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- If a stranger does approach you, move away from them immediately – run to a trusted adult.

Islandia-based Rose Brucia Educational Foundation is the brainchild of Matthew J. Barbis, who created the organization after his 11-year-old cousin, Carlie Brucia, was abducted and murdered in Sarasota, Florida in 2004. 

Last week was Rose Brucia Stranger Safety Awareness Week in New York. 

The organization offers a free safety awareness program designed to provide stranger safety techniques to elementary-aged children. Teachers and other educators can find more information about the program on the Rose Brucia website. 


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