The attack on 14-year-old Adriana Kuch by a group of girls in a hall of Central Regional High School in Bayville on Feb. 1 and the subsequent sharing of a video of the attack on social media and her resulting suicide two days later became a regional, national, even international news story that was reported as far away as New Zealand.

In response, New Jersey’s 9th Legislative District team of Sen. Christopher J. Connors and Assembly members Brian E.