Iowa Representative in House District 28 David Young stresses a couple of areas he wants to address in the future that failed to pass during this year’s legislative session.

Young tells Raccoon Valley Radio that there were two areas for him that he was hopeful would pass, relating to protecting landowners and the other one deals with parental protection on social media. For the landowner bill, the House was trying to prevent the government from taking people’s land in order to serve a private corporation or entity. 

The other area with social media, Young, was a big proponent of having parents/guardians in charge of their children’s social media accounts. He mentions that it was a big topic within the House but didn’t come up in the Senate. Young acknowledges that social media is a good tool, but thinks that the legislature has a responsibility to help limit the dangerous exposure to children.

“We, as legislators, have to do that to make sure we empower parents to be in charge of their kids’ social media, because there’s things on social media that ‘I mean I see them, and I’m not a kid anymore, and I get taken aback, I get a little embarrassed or shocked about some of the things that I see,’ and I think our kids are growing up too fast, and they don’t know how to process this information and what it means.”

Young would like to revisit both these issues in the future as he believes that they are important areas that should be addressed.