A Community Advocacy Document — Indianapolis & Indiana — May 2026 — Free to Share, Print, and Distribute
One Indiana teenager. One preventable tragedy. One technology that could have saved her —
and can protect your child right now.
-Every child in Indiana deserves a phone that actually protects them.
She was 17 years old.
Hailey Buzbee was a teenager from Fishers, Indiana — a student at Hamilton Southeastern High School, living in a neighborhood just like yours. She had a phone. She used it the way every teenager uses their phone. She played games online. She talked to people. She had no idea that one of those people — a 39-year-old man named Tyler Thomas, living in Columbus, Ohio — was carefully, patiently building a trap around her.
Thomas found Hailey through Roblox and League of Legends. Then he moved the conversation to Discord. For weeks, he worked to gain her trust and isolate her from her family — a textbook predatory process that unfolded entirely through the device she carried everywhere.
On the night of January 5, 2026, Thomas drove from Columbus to Fishers. He picked Hailey up from her home in the Enclave at Vermillion neighborhood while her family slept. He drove her across state lines into Ohio.
Her family reported her missing the next morning.
On February 1, 2026, Fishers Police announced they believed she was dead. Thomas eventually led investigators to her remains in Wayne National Forest in Perry County, Ohio.
The FBI charged Thomas with sexual exploitation of a minor and transporting a child across state lines — crimes that carry up to 30 years per count.
Hailey was 17. She should be finishing her junior year of high school right now.
"Her phone never sent a single alert. It didn't know anything was wrong. It couldn't. No phone can — yet."
Here's Something Nobody Is Talking About
We put locks on our doors. We put GPS trackers on our cars. We put passwords on our bank accounts.
But the most important device your child owns — the one they carry everywhere, sleep next to, and use to communicate with every person in their life — has a massive security blind spot that nobody is talking about.
Here's how it works right now:
Your child unlocks their phone. Maybe with a fingerprint. Maybe with a face scan. Maybe with a PIN.
And then the phone trusts whoever is holding it. Completely. For as long as the screen is on.
It doesn't matter what happens after that unlock. It doesn't matter if someone else takes the phone. It doesn't matter what the phone is being used for. Once it's unlocked, the phone has no way to tell the difference between your child and a stranger — and it has no way to tell you that something has gone wrong.
Security experts call this the Possession Gap. And right now, every smartphone on the market has it.
That means:
● No alert when your child's phone leaves your neighborhood at 2 a.m.
● No notification when someone unfamiliar picks up the phone.
● No silent alarm sent to you when your child is in danger.
● No real-time location tracking that activates automatically when something goes wrong.
● No forensic record of what happened on the device — unless you can subpoena multiple tech companies in different states after the fact.
This is not your child's fault. This is not your fault. This is a gap in the technology itself — and it has gone unaddressed for decades.
It exists on every iPhone. Every Android. Every tablet. Right now. It doesn't require a hacker. It doesn't require malware. It just requires that someone with bad intentions gets within reach of your child's unlocked device.
Here's the good news: someone already figured out how to fix this.
His name is Kurt Kalani Sparks. He's an independent researcher and the originator of a technology framework called Active Session Defense — or ASD.
ASD was designed to close the Possession Gap. Not someday. Not in theory. Now — using the sensors already built into the phone your child is holding.
Here's what ASD does, in plain English:
Every second your child's phone is unlocked, ASD is asking one question:
Is the right person still holding this phone?
It answers that question using the sensors already in the device:
• The way your child grips the phone
• The way they swipe and type
• Their face, recognized by the front camera
• Where the phone is — and whether it's left a safe zone
• Whether a trusted Bluetooth device (like a parent's watch) is still nearby
All of this is processed privately, on the phone itself. Nothing is sent to a server. Nothing is stored in the cloud.
ASD calculates a Possession Confidence Score in real time — a number from 0 to 1 measuring how sure the system is that your child is still the one holding the phone.
If that number drops — if the phone detects that something has changed — ASD responds. Quietly. Immediately. Without alerting whoever might be holding the phone.
What happens next is up to you, as a parent:
• You get a silent alert on your own phone.
• You get your child's GPS location, updated every 30 seconds.
• The phone begins preserving a secure forensic record of everything happening on the device.
• A geo-fence you set around your home or school sends an alert the moment the phone crosses the boundary.
Nobody sees any of this on your child's phone. The response is invisible to whoever is holding it.
Note: ASD is a device-security system — not an investigation tool for specific cases or individuals. The following is an illustration of how ASD's documented features could apply to the type of situation Hailey's family faced. We share it to make the technology real and understandable — not to make claims about any individual.
Imagine Hailey's phone had ASD installed that night.
The moment she stepped out of her home in the Enclave at Vermillion neighborhood and crossed the geo-fence her parents had set — her mom's phone would have buzzed. Silently. With a map. With coordinates. With a timestamp.
The moment Thomas handled her phone — with his different grip, his different face, his different touch — ASD's Possession Confidence Score would have started to fall. A silent alert would have gone to her parents. GPS coordinates, every 30 seconds. No visible sign on the phone that anything was happening.
By the time Thomas reached the Ohio state line, her parents would have had hours of real-time location data. The FBI would have had a head start of hours — not days.
That's not a fantasy. That's what ASD is designed to do. Using hardware that already exists in the phone already in your child's pocket.
"The technology exists. The standard is written. What's missing is the law that requires it."
Right now, no federal law requires smartphones to have ASD-level security. No law requires device makers to include parental notification features like the ones ASD defines. No law requires geo-fence monitoring. No law requires silent alarm capability.
ASD has a published technical standard — ASD-TS-001, released May 2026 — that gives lawmakers exactly what they need: a detailed, formal blueprint for what compliant device security should look like for devices used by children.
Indiana's own Attorney General, Todd Rokita, has already taken a first step — filing suit on May 7, 2026 against Roblox and Discord for failing to protect minors on their platforms.
That's a start. But it's not enough.
Platform lawsuits happen after a child is already hurt. ASD acts before.
We are asking Congressman André Carson and Indiana's full congressional delegation to take the next step: introduce legislation that requires ASD-standard device security for any smartphone or tablet marketed to or used by minors.
The blueprint is written. The need is proven. The moment is now.
You don't have to be a technologist. You don't have to be a lobbyist. You don't have to know anyone in Washington.
You just have to care — and be willing to say so out loud.
Here's what you can do right now:
1 SIGN ON AS A SUPPORTER
Add your name to the growing list of Indiana residents calling on Congress to require ASD-standard device security for minors. Your name matters. Community voices move legislation.
2 SHARE THIS DOCUMENT
Print it. Email it. Post it. Send it to your PTA, your church, your neighborhood Facebook group, your school board. Every person who reads this is a potential voice in Washington.
3 CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES
Call or write Congressman André Carson's office and your state legislators. Tell them you know about ASD. Tell them you want it required on your child's phone. Tell them Hailey Buzbee's family deserves to know that something changed because of what happened to her.
4 TALK TO YOUR SCHOOL
Ask your school district whether they have a policy on device security for school-issued or student-owned devices. Share this document with your principal and school board. Request that ASD-standard security be part of any future device policy.
5 STAY CONNECTED
Follow the progress of ASD legislation and find out how to stay involved. Contact Kurt Kalani Sparks, Independent Researcher and Originator of Active Session Defense — ksparks@hamdtransportation.com
Active Session Defense (ASD) was created by Kurt Kalani Sparks, an independent researcher based in Indiana.
The full technical framework is documented in the ASD Provisional Specification (ASD-FP-2026-001, April 2026) and the ASD Technical Standard (ASD-TS-001, May 2026). These documents are publicly available and establish ASD as a research-grade, rigorously documented technology framework — not a commercial product, not a surveillance system, and not a political agenda.
ASD is grounded in three principles:
• Privacy by design — all processing happens on the device; no behavioral data leaves the phone
• Parental empowerment — parents configure what protection their child's device has; no government access without a court order
• Technological honesty — ASD uses sensors and capabilities that already exist in every modern smartphone
ASD is not affiliated with any political party, corporate interest, or government agency. It is an independent research initiative, developed in Indiana, for families everywhere.
She was a kid from Fishers.
She played video games.
She had a phone.
So does your child.
The difference between Hailey's story and your child's story
could be one piece of legislation.
One technology mandate.
One requirement that the phone in your child's pocket actually protect them.
We're asking you to be part of making that happen.
Contact Kurt Kalani Sparks, Independent Researcher & Originator of Active Session Defense
ksparks@hamdtransportation.com
Active Session Defense — ASD-FP-2026-001 | ASD-TS-001
Protecting Indiana's Children. Starting Now.
Active Session Defense (ASD) is a research initiative by Kurt Kalani Sparks, Independent Researcher.
ASD Provisional Specification: ASD-FP-2026-001, v1.0, April 12, 2026. | ASD Technical Standard: ASD-TS-001, v1.0, May 2026, ASD Standards Body — Technical Architecture Division.
Per the ASD Scope and Boundaries Statement: ASD is a device-security architecture. It does not analyze, evaluate, or make claims about real individuals. The Hailey Buzbee case is referenced as an illustrative scenario based on publicly available information.
This document is for public distribution. May be freely shared, printed, and reproduced for non-commercial advocacy purposes.
May 2026 | Indianapolis, Indiana