FREEPORT — The Kids First Professional Education Committee will present the 2012 Annual Fall Conference on “The Perils of Virtual Venom: Latest Issues in Social Media and Electronic Discovery,” from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at Harraseeket Inn. Check-in is from 8 to 8:30.

The keynote speaker will be Annette T. Burns.

Online communications are often unclear, ambiguous and hinder positive co-parenting. Parents’ use of Facebook, Twitter, texting and other social media is easily accessed by children, co-parents and their attorneys. Parents are often unaware that information gained through social media is fair game in the courtroom.

This conference will help professionals learn strategies for online discovery, use of electronic records, social media in the courtroom and ways to manage and advise clients on technology. Also discussed will be the benefits technology provides for parents and their children; i.e., Skype and the use of OurFamilyWizard website as a tool for communicating and exchanging child information.

There will be a morning presentation by the keynote speaker and an afternoon panel of professionals and a teen to discuss the use of social media and the positive and negative impacts on children of divorce.

The suggested audience is any professional with questions regarding the influence of the social media revolution and families of divorce; judges, magistrates, attorneys, mediators, guardians ad litem and mental health professionals educators.

The fee is $165 before Oct. 1 and $175 after Oct. 2. Register at www.kidsfirstcenter.org/register.php.