The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

field offices, both domestic and foreign, engaged in child sex tourisminvestigations. • Lead Intake and DisseminationThe CES is the central point within OI for the receipt and dissemination of childexploitation and child sex tourism leads. The CES receives leads fromINTERPOL, European Union law enforcement Agency (EUROPOL), theNational Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the U.S.Department of State (DOS), the DOJ, various federal, state, and local governmentagencies, various non-governmental agencies, both domestic and international,and the ICE field offices, both domestic and international. The CES isresponsible for assessing the referrals and identifying the appropriate office fordissemination. This assessment involves identifying the specific violations andissuing legal process.• National Child Victim Identification SystemFollowing the April 2002 Supreme Court decision in Ashcroft v. Free SpeechCoalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002), a case striking down as overbroad, a ban on“virtually” created child pornography under the Child Pornography PreventionAct of 1996, the need for a single national repository for all known childpornographic images became critically important. ICE recognized thisvulnerability and developed the National Child Victim Identification System(NCVIS). NCVIS is an ICE-led initiative in partnership with the U.S. SecretService, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Department of Justice fundedInternet Crimes Against Children Task Forces, the Department’s ChildExploitation and Obscenity Section, the FBI, and the National Center for Missing& Exploited Children to facilitate the identification of child pornographyproduced utilizing real children. The system is dynamic in nature, and containsknown and unique digital child pornographic images. NCVIS, operated andmanaged by C3, supports child exploitation investigations and prosecutionsconducted by federal, state, local and foreign law enforcement entities.• National Center for Missing and Exploited ChildrenThe CES maintains a full time liaison position at the NCMEC. This liaisonposition is responsible for receiving ICE field office submissions to the NCMECChild Victim Identification Program (CVIP), coordinating ICE field officetechnical assistance requests to NCMEC, and providing additional support asrequired to NCMEC. The CES liaison also receives leads from NCMEC andfacilitates the dissemination to the appropriate ICE field office, both domestic andinternational. The CES liaison assists ICE Attaché offices in setting up virtualprivate network connections to NCMEC’s Cybertipline so the Attaché mayreceive reports for their area of responsibility directly from NCMEC.• U.S. Department of Justice, Child Exploitation and Obscenity SectionThe CES maintains a part-time liaison position within DOJ CEOS. The liaisonposition facilitates ICE international/national child exploitation operations. The84