Roblox is facing yet another civil lawsuit by a government body, this one coming from Los Angeles County in California, adding one more layer to its legal quagmire. Like several other suits before it, the new case against Roblox is tied to its leadership’s alleged failure to protect underage players from child sexual predators and media content deemed inappropriate for children.
Allegations against Roblox have been ongoing for years, first gaining national attention in October 2022, after a lawsuit filed by individuals in San Francisco alleged that the gaming platform served as a virtual meeting place between an underage California girl and multiple adult men, leading to them meeting up outside the game. According to that suit, multiple illegal activities were reportedly performed in that incident, including underage drinking, consumption of prescription drugs, and the sharing of sexually explicit photos. Within about two months of that first suit’s filing, the United States Congress launched inquiries against multiple game developers over allegations of online extremism, with Roblox Corp. listed among more than a dozen others.
Los Angles County Launches its Own Legal Battle Against Roblox
Now, a new suit filed by Los Angeles County alleges that Roblox has put children’s safety at risk in the name of profit, with its perceived lack of safeguards allowing children to be exposed to a number of dangers, including sexual grooming. The county is seeking an injunction and abatement against Roblox Corp., along with fines of $2,500 per day for each violation. “The trauma that results is horrific, from grooming to exploitation to actual assault,” County Counsel Dawyn R. Harrison was quoted by Los Angeles-based local news station KTLA. “This needs to stop.” Harrison added the professional opinion that Roblox “gives pedophiles powerful tools to prey on innocent and unsuspecting children.”
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This is far from the first lawsuit brought about against Roblox over safeguards to ensure child safety. Between August and December of 2025, state legal officials in Kentucky, Louisiana, Florida, and Texas all announced legal suits against Roblox Corp., with each subsequently filing separate but similar cases against the platform’s parent company, making child-protection safeguards a major focus in all filed cases. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton described the gaming platform as a “breeding ground for predators,” and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill made a similar statement, accusing Roblox Corp. of “permitting and perpetuating an online environment in which child predators thrive.”
The fallout over alleged crimes involving children and Roblox hasn’t stopped with just lawsuits filed by individuals and county and state governments. Entire countries have banned or blocked user access to Roblox, with the current list including Algeria, China, Egypt, Greece, Guatemala, Iraq, Jordan, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Russia, and Turkey, and previous bans having been enacted by Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Not all of those national bans have been entirely centered around protection of children from potential child predators, as the official statement out of Russia also claimed Roblox was involved with the “distribution of materials containing propaganda and justification of extremist and terrorist activity,” including gambling, attacks on education, violent calls to action, and pro-LGBT messaging.
To date, Roblox Corp has pushed back against the lawsuits and related accusations, and the company’s legal team seems ready to defend it against the new suit brought by Los Angeles County. To its credit, the company has taken some actions in recent months in the name of promoting better child safety standards. Since legal actions against the company have increased in the middle of 2025, Roblox has banned and disabled unrated games on its platform in an effort to promote a safer experience for children, who make up the bulk of its more than 151 million worldwide users. Additionally, the company has also tried to divide the community by age, only allowing players to chat with others who fall into an approximate age range, though its requirement of photo identification and several reports of inaccuracy by its age-estimation facial recognition tools have left a lot of doubt over its effectiveness.
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September 1, 2006
- ESRB
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Teen / Diverse Content: Discretion Advised,
In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items), Users Interact - Developer(s)
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Roblox Corporation
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Roblox Corporation
Source: KTLA News Los Angeles
