Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a $12.2 million settlement with Roblox on Tuesday over child safety protections on the gaming platform. Alabama became the second state to reach a deal with the company, following Nevada's $12 million agreement.

Both state settlements were negotiated in lieu of official lawsuits. Settlement funds from the Alabama agreement will be used to finance school resource officers across the state.

Under the terms of both settlements, Roblox pledged to enforce stricter safeguards, including requiring age verification for all users, expanding parental controls and ending all encryption on chats for minors. Marshall said some changes announced in the Alabama settlement have already been implemented and others will take place between May 1 and Sept. 1.

"Platforms that host child consumers must do their part to give parents a fighting chance to shield their children from harm," Marshall said. "While parents will always play the primary role in protecting their children online, we are raising the bar on what we expect from gaming platforms—parents need a partner, not a black box."

He called the settlement a victory for children and their parents. "We also think that we have created a framework that can be mirrored by states across the country that will not only protect Alabama's children, but will protect America's kids," he said.

Roblox is a social gaming platform with over 151 million users. The company is facing legal action over alleged child safety issues in its user-made games, including child predators and sexually explicit or violent content. At least seven states have pending litigation against Roblox.

More than 100 families have sued Roblox over its alleged failure to prevent children from being groomed or assaulted by predators on the platform. Those individual lawsuits are consolidated into multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Roblox rolled out a suite of parental controls and implemented increasingly strict age verification policies in recent months and years. The company plans to launch separate age-based accounts for minors in June.

Under the Nevada settlement, Roblox agreed to pay $12.5 million, with the majority to be funneled into children's programs in the state over the next three years and the rest to fund a company law enforcement liaison and an online safety awareness campaign.