The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

III.THE NATION’S APPROACH TO COMBATTING CHILD EXPLOITATIONFor many years, the Department and many federal, state, and local agencies, and nongovernmentorganizations have fought against the sexual exploitation of our nation’s children onmany fronts. The Act requires the Department to report to Congress on a variety of these efforts,including: (A) a review of the Department’s work to prevent, investigate, and prosecute childexploitation crimes; 74 (B) a review of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task ForceProgram; 75 (C) a review of other Federal programs efforts relating to child exploitation andeducation; 76 (D) a review of other efforts by private sector and nonprofit entities that promotechild safety; 77 (E) a description of the Department’s actions to help coordinate the various effortsthat are underway, including efforts to coordinate internationally; 78 (F) a review of federalprograms focused on Internet safety; 79 (G) a report on the Project Safe Childhood Conference; 80and (H) an assessment of the technological assistance available to state and local lawenforcement agencies and review of the backlog of the forensic analysis at Regional ComputerForensic Labs. 81This section of the Report provides information on all of the areas identified above by providinga brief review of the myriad groups and coordination efforts underway. The combined efforts ofthese groups represent the work of thousands of individuals and hundreds of thousands of hoursof work, resulting in countless crimes not being committed, victims being rescued, and crimesbeing prosecuted. Due to the significance of all of these efforts, it would be impossible to detailall of the work performed by each group. Instead, this Report attempts to provide acomprehensive overview of the number of agencies, organizations, and task forces that exist toaddress this issue and to provide Congress information about the extent to which the Departmentis assisting in coordinating and collaborating with these groups.A. A Review of the Department of Justice’s Offices Involved in the Fight to Prevent,Investigate, and Prosecute Child Exploitation CrimesThe Department has a number of components, offices, and agencies that devote personnel,resources, and time to the issue of preventing, investigating, and prosecuting child exploitation.These components include: the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG), FBI, the U.S.Marshals Service, the U.S. Attorneys Offices, the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation andObscenity Section (CEOS) and the Office of International Affairs (OIA), the Office of JusticePrograms (OJP), and the Office of Legal Policy (OLP). For example, the FBI is one of thepremier law enforcement agencies in the world. It has fought the exploitation of childrenthrough major initiatives like the Innocent Images National Initiative (IINI), the Innocence LostNational Initiative (ILNI), and the Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) teams. TheMarshals Service takes a lead role in locating and investigating unregistered sex offenders.74See the Act, Sec. 101(c)(5).75See the Act, Sec. 101 (c)(8).76See the Act, Sec. 101(c)(12).77See the Act, Sec. 101(c)(18).78See the Act, Sec. 101(c)(6-7).79See the Act, Sec. 101(c)(12).80See the Act, Sec. 101(c)(19).81See the Act, Sec. 101(c)(9-10).41