Internet 101 for parents

It’s a rare individual that can hold a teenager’s attention so well they forget about checking their phones for texts or emails. Let alone a roomful of 40 such teens.

Personal protection specialist and 28-year law enforcement member Darren Laur seems to have that knack, so much so that Cheney High School’s Noah Ziemann was beyond excited to get him to come to town to speak.

“As soon as he started it was, click, he was on with everything,” Ziemann said of Laur’s presentation last November at the Youth Court Conference held at Seattle University’s School of Law.

Laur was all the senior, who also...