ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida’s attorney general has taken a decisive step by issuing new criminal subpoenas against the online gaming platform Roblox. This move intensifies allegations that the company isn’t adequately preventing child predators from exploiting the game to target young users.

“Platforms like Roblox have unfortunately become fertile ground for predators seeking access to children,” stated Attorney General James Uthmeier in a press release. “Our commitment to protecting Florida’s children is unwavering, and we will hold accountable any company that fails to shield them from harm.”

Roblox offers a shared digital universe where users can create and engage in games and experiences, which can be played and enjoyed by others.

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Over the past year, Roblox has been embroiled in lawsuits and state probes, facing criticism that it is not sufficiently preventing sexual predators from using the platform to groom children.

Uthmeier said the criminal subpoenas were being issued in response to reports and allegations that the company was not doing enough to verify user ages and moderate content, allowing sexually explicit material to evade the platform’s filters.

In February, a school employee in Orange County was accused of using Roblox to entice two boys to commit sex acts over video chat, offering in-game currency called “Robux” in exchange for the video.

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In April, a 17-year-old in Marion County was arrested, accused of searching for children on Roblox to engage in sexual activity and create child sex abuse material.

Uthmeier subpoenaed Roblox back in April for information about how the game markets to children, including documents to show the amount of time minors spend on the platform, documents related to marketing to children, and communications to or from a Florida user reporting abuse to Roblox.

In August, Roblox announced it was using an AI system to help detect early signs of possible child endangerment, including sexual exploitative language.

The company said the Sentinel AI system had led the company to submit 1,200 reports of potential attempts at child exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the first six months of the year.

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“We’ve had filters in place all along, but those filters tend to focus on what is said in a single line of text or within just a few lines of text. And that’s really good for doing things like blocking profanity and blocking different types of abusive language and things like that,” Matt Kaufman, chief safety officer at Roblox, told the Associated Press in August. “But when you’re thinking about things related to child endangerment or grooming, the types of behaviors you’re looking at manifest over a very long period of time.”

Roblox said it was in the process of making the program open source so other platforms could also use it.