The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

1. Overarching Efforts to Coordinate Child Exploitation, Prevention, andInterdictiona. The Federal Inter-Agency Task Force on Missing and Exploited ChildrenTitle IV of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended, theMissing Children’s Assistance Act of 1984, authorizes the Administrator of the Office ofJuvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to coordinate the Federal Government’sresponse to missing and exploited children. From this role, the Federal Inter-Agency Task Forceon Missing and Exploited Children was created in 1995. The Task Force has met quarterly formore than ten years, and is chaired by the OJJDP Associate Administrator for the ChildProtection Division. Members include the Department of Justice, Department of Defense,Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and HumanServices, Department of State, Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Postal Service. The TaskForce meets to discuss programs and policy that affect efforts to protect children.b. Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG)The Online Safety and Technology Working Group (Working Group) was established pursuantto the "Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act." Participants, including federal agencies,evaluate industry efforts and are developing recommendations to promote online safety forchildren through education, labeling, and parental control technology. The Working Group alsoevaluates and develops recommendations on industry efforts to prevent and respond to criminalactivity involving children and the Internet. The OSTWG will submit a report to Congress andthe Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of its findings and makerecommendations on how to increase online safety measures.c. Project Safe Childhood InitiativeWhile Project Safe Childhood was mentioned above, it is more fully described here. TheDepartment’s 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices lead Project Safe Childhood. Project Safe Childhood(PSC) is a Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 that aims to combat the proliferationof technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. OJJDP’s Project SafeChildhood public education and community awareness program is a critical part of current lawenforcement efforts to combat the sexual exploitation. PSC coordinates investigations andprosecutions of online sexual predators and is implemented through a partnership of U.S.Attorneys, CEOS, Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces, FBI, U.S. PostalInspection Service, ICE, Marshals Service, advocacy organizations such as the NCMEC andstate and local law enforcement officials.In FY 2007, OJJDP provided $4 million dollars in grants to further the goals of Project SafeChildhood. As part of that effort, OJJDP provided $ 2.5 million to fund a national publiceducation and awareness campaign. This media campaign was unique in that variouscomponents could be adapted for continued use and distribution at the local, state, and regionallevels by PSC Coordinators and other appropriate organizations. OJJDP also provided $1.598