Roblox Corp. violated Florida law by failing to protect kids on its online gaming platform from sexual predators that use the company’s application to find, groom, and abuse them, a new lawsuit says.
Roblox has failed to implement readily available child-safety features, such as verifying users’ age or obtaining parental consent at signup, Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said in a Thursday complaint filed in rural Baker County.
“Florida children have been coerced to take and send explicit sexual images of themselves,” says the suit, which alleges violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. “Others have been physically abducted and raped.”
The company deceived parents about the safety of its platform while failing to protect children from accessing graphic adult content and being contacted and groomed by predators, Uthmeier said in a press release.
“This lawsuit fundamentally misrepresents how Roblox works. Roblox is built with safety at its core,” said Matt Kaufman, Roblox’s chief safety officer.
“We have advanced safeguards that monitor our platform for harmful content and communications. Users cannot send or receive images via chat, eliminating one of the most prevalent opportunities for misuse seen elsewhere online,” he said.
Roblox is “rolling out additional measures to further limit who users can chat with, going beyond what is required by law and what other platforms do,” Kaufman said. “We take swift action against anyone found to violate our safety rules and work closely with law enforcement to support investigations and hold bad actors accountable.”
Florida’s suit follows similar complaints filed by Texas, Louisiana, and Kentucky. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said in a Nov. 6 complaint that Roblox “is a sprawling and unregulated digital playground that is overrun by predators and saturated with sexual content.”
While Roblox has the ability to require information from consumers, it instead relies on self-reported birthdates for age verification at signup, the complaint says. That allows adults to enter fake birthdays and pose as children to communicate with underage users, something Roblox has allegedly enabled, the plaintiffs allege.
The complaint says Roblox makes available for children a hypersexual virtual world, with games based on real-life crimes against children such as a recreation of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, the suit says.
Roblox also has an “inadequate number of human moderators” that “report being overwhelmed by an unmanageable volume of child-safety reports,” the complaint says.
The case is Uthmeier v. Roblox Corp., Fla. Cir. Ct., complaint filed 12/11/25.
