Six US states have filed lawsuits against Roblox in the past three weeks, all making the same allegation: that the platform markets itself as safe for children while knowingly failing to prevent predators from accessing them.
Nebraska was the latest, filing on 4 March. Iowa, Tennessee, Georgia, and Los Angeles County preceded it. The Netherlands opened a Digital Services Act investigation in January. A Chris Hansen documentary on child safety on the platform, “Dangerous Games: Investigating Roblox,” landed on 27 February and accelerated the scrutiny significantly.
The lawsuits focus on specific design failures: private messaging and voice chat with minimal barriers to adult-to-child contact, user-created environments hosting deeply inappropriate content, and a sign-up process requiring only a username, password, and date of birth. Roblox introduced mandatory facial age verification for chat in January 2026 — which it described as “the gold standard for communication safety.” Nebraska’s Attorney General filed suit four weeks later, saying it does not fix the underlying problem.
Roblox has more than 151 million daily active users, most of them under 13. We covered the face scan rollout in December. The lawsuits are the next chapter: regulators and law enforcement saying that a verification step at the chat door does not address a platform designed, at its foundation, without adequate child safety guardrails.
What to do today: go into your child’s account settings, restrict all contact to Friends only, and turn on the parent monitoring dashboard. The grooming cases described in these lawsuits did not start with explicit content — they started with friendly conversation inside a game. Children who understand that pattern are better placed to recognise it.
Sources
- Nebraska AG lawsuit, 4 March 2026: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/03/04/nebraska-sues-roblox-for-what-ag-calls-enabling-child-exploitation-deceptive-safety-practices/
- LA County filing, 19 February 2026: https://lacounty.gov/2026/02/19/la-county-sues-roblox-for-unfair-and-deceptive-business-practices-that-endanger-and-exploit-children/
- Georgia AG investigation: https://law.georgia.gov/press-releases/2026-02-17/carr-investigates-roblox-reports-child-exploitation
- NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/roblox-lawsuit-nebraska-attorney-general-what-to-know-rcna261733
