The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

in various domestic and international venues, to more than 1,000 federal, state, and localprosecutors and investigators, including many foreign officials.CEOS also maintains and updates an intranet site, accessible by all United States Attorney’sOffices and Main Justice components, that provides links to the current and previous newsletters,topical indices for the newsletter articles, the case digest, a library of go-by motions, juryinstructions, memoranda, and other useful documents. Since September 2007, over 32,000 itemshave been downloaded from this website. Moreover, agents and AUSAs who need immediateassistance can also call the CEOS duty line, staffed by CEOS Trial Attorneys who can provideparticularized, on-the-spot guidance. CEOS has fielded over 1,700 duty calls during the past 15months.Examples of CEOS’s work include:• CEOS worked with the FBI and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children todevelop a national initiative to combat the domestic prostitution of children (theInnocence Lost Initiative) at a time when no one recognized this as a crime. Today, thisis a growing area of enforcement and recognized widely as a vexing crime problem.Innocence Lost currently operates in 34 task forces and working groups.• CEOS played an instrumental role in the design and implementation of Project SafeChildhood, which was conceived to enhance the government’s response to Internetfacilitatedchild exploitation crimes.• CEOS partnered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the FBI, andother federal partners to develop a mechanism to identify offenders, as well as victimizedchildren depicted in the images of sexual abuse through the Endangered Child AlertProgram and Operation Rescue Me. CEOS also worked with these partners to ensure thatthese victims’ rights are upheld.• CEOS recognized the challenges posed to Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) bythe technological sophistication of child pornography offenders and the complexities ofonline crime. CEOS responded by creating the High Technology Investigative Unit(“HTIU”), which now employs six computer forensic specialists. The HTIU was the firstever forensic unit co-located in a federal prosecutorial office. This synergy considerablyenhances the Department’s capacity to prosecute cutting-edge, technologically complexchild exploitation crimes.• CEOS has been assisting the Department to devise a strategy to address severe forensicshortfalls and challenges to effective information-sharing among law enforcementagencies.• To address a lack of consensus concerning the danger posed by child pornographycollectors to children, CEOS proposed, developed and delivered, through the G8 LawEnforcement Projects Sub-Group, an International Symposium of experts to identify thecorrelation between child pornography offenders and child molesters.49