The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

F. Review of Internet Safety ProgramsThe Act also required the Department review all its work related to programs educating thepublic on Internet Safety. 92 The search for federally funded programs was conducted bothonline and through document review. In all, 18 programs were identified, 16 of which areeducational programs for children, youth, or adults. Two are federally funded research projectsthat include recommendations to prevent the online victimization of children.The federally funded programs included in this inventory address a number of Internet safetyissues including:• Safety in online relationships.• Avoiding pornography and other offensive materials.• Copyright, plagiarism, and intellectual property theft.• Internet citizenship.• Cyberbullying.• Identity theft and privacy concerns.• Hacking and malicious programming.The programs are designed for a variety of audiences, including children and youth, parents,teachers and other school personnel, and law enforcement. Many of the programs deliver theircontent through a Web site. Others make printed materials available, including lesson plans andclassroom activities, books, or reports.This inventory of federally funded Internet safety programs reveals much overlap in programsfunded and much potential for collaboration among programs to ensure that they reach the widestpossible audience.Programs were deemed to be federally funded if they were entirely or largely funded with federalfunds or, when funding information was not available, if the program identified itself as beingthe product of a federal initiative. The target audiences for programs included in the inventoryare youths ages 21 and younger and parents, teachers, and leaders of youth groups (e.g., boyscouts, girl scouts, boys and girls clubs). “Internet safety” was defined broadly to include notonly programs to teach children how to avoid online contact with adults who might harm them,but also programs that educate youth about online issues such as avoiding unwanted exposure topornography, copyright and intellectual property theft, good Internet citizenship, cyberbullying,identity theft, and hacking. The term “programs” also was construed broadly to mean interactiveWeb sites with a didactic purpose (but not Web sites that only listed safety rules), curriculums,92Internet safety. The [congressional] conferees strongly support programs that provide various services andresources to protect children from being vulnerable to online predators. The conferees understand that parents, lawenforcement personnel, school personnel, and afterschool program staff can obtain information about Internet safetyfrom a multitude of arenas. The conferees want to better understand what types and how many Internet safetyprograms are being federally funded. The conferees direct the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice andDelinquency Prevention, in coordination with the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and DelinquencyPrevention, to submit a report on federally funded Internet safety programs to the Committees on Appropriationswithin 180 days of the enactment of this Act. House Report 108–792.110