The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

The United States Attorney’s offices lead Project Safe Childhood, a program designed to marshalfederal, state and local investigative and prosecution resources to combat the technologyfacilitatedsexual exploitation of children. CEOS is an office within the Criminal Division of theDepartment that is staffed by highly trained specialists who lead nationwide investigations,provide advice and training to the nation’s prosecutors, and develop legislative and policyinitiatives. OIA is another section within the Criminal Division, which is responsible forcoordination with federal, state, and foreign authorities to obtain the international extradition offugitives and the exchange of evidence and other legal assistance in support of investigations andprosecutions, including those for child exploitation crimes, in the United States and abroad. OJPprovides funding and coordination for dozens of state and local programs for research projects,community outreach, and Internet safety training, and investigative agencies, including the 61ICAC task forces. The Office of Legal Policy has aided in gathering information for this Report,and in reviewing legislation in the area of child exploitation. The Office of the Deputy AttorneyGeneral houses the newly appointed National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention andInterdiction.1. Office of the Deputy Attorney GeneralThe Act required the Department to appoint a “high official” to coordinate the formulation andimplementation of the National Strategy, and to liaise with federal, state, local, and internationalgroups to foster further cooperation in this area. The Department has appointed the NationalCoordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, who is housed in the Office ofthe Deputy Attorney General. The National Coordinator has worked as a state and federalprosecutor specializing in crimes against children since 1996, and brings a wealth of substantiveexperience to the position.2. The Federal Bureau of InvestigationThe FBI is a leader in investigating child exploitation through several important initiatives.Agents working in Innocent Images focus on technology-facilitated crimes against children.This initiative has also been launched internationally, with investigators from many countriesinvited to train with agents from Innocent Images to foster cooperation and coordination. TheFBI also leads 34 local task forces as part of the Innocence Lost initiative, which focuses on theforced domestic prostitution of our children, and has lead to the conviction of more than 500pimps and madams. In 2006, the FBI formed Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD)teams to aid state and local law enforcement in child abduction investigations. These teams havedeployed in more than 55 cases since their creation.a. Innocent Images National InitiativeThe Innocent Images National Initiative (IINI) is a national FBI initiative that addresses crimesrelated to child pornography and the sexual exploitation of children through the use of onlinecomputers and related media. IINI investigations involve the use of highly sophisticatedmethods to identify subjects trying to evade law enforcement detection by the use of multiplelayers of encryption and proxy servers in other countries. As such, IINI investigators and42