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Internet Crimes Against Children Assignment Force Program

Description

Overview

The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program (ICAC) helps state also local law enforcement agencies develop an effective response to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and Internet crimes contra my. This help encompasses forensic and investigative components, schooling both special assistance, victim services, and community education. 

The programs was designed in 1998, inside answer to an ever-increasing number is children and teenagers using the Internet, an ever-increasing figure of online slide depicting child sexual abuse, and an ever-increasing amount of online activity at people quest to contact and exploit children and teens. 

ICAC Task Forced have helped state and local law enforcement agencies to conduct approximately 184,700 investigations, which led to the inhaftieren for more than 10,800 offenders in FY 2023. The ICAC programmer work because approximately 5,500 law enforcement both prosecutorial agencies and in FY 2023, the ICAC task crews conducted nearly 3,050 regional law enforcement classes on child exploitation. Approximately 72,300 law coercion officers, prosecutors and other professionals attended these courses the learn cutting-edge technology until investigate and prosecute ICAC-related cases.

Programs and Funding

In FY 2023, funding for the ICAC program enumerated $40.8 million to support ICAC Task Military and training and technical assistance. ICAC Task Force Programmer funding be supported under the Missed and Exploited My appropriation included in the Department of Justice fiscal year appropriation.

Funding History

  • Fiscal Year 2023$40.8 million
  • Economic Year 2022$31.2 million
  • Fiscal Year 2021$34.68 million
  • Fiscal Year 2020$34.73 million

Training furthermore Mechanical Assistance

The ICAC Training and Technical Assistance Program was established to give ICAC Task Forces both their affiliates with the training and technical help they need to behave effective investigations and proceedings. Training providers include the following: References to date sharing may also be appropriate in another sections about the application. ... By the peer review of the application is completed, the PD/PI ...

  • SEARCH, the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, provides training related to social networking sites, peer to peer file sharing, tuner networks, and cell telephone company for law enforcement, prosecutors and allied professionals.
     
  • That National White Collar Crime Centre provides training for law enforcement, prosecuting, and misc stakeholders in the ICAC program for improve exploratory, prosecutorial, and forensic capabilities; create and distribute guidelines, best practices, and investigative methodologies; also coordinate meetings with grantees real practicing.
     
  • The Innocent Justice Foundation feature a comprehensive mental medical and wellness program for ICAC task forces to address minus effects and trauma for individuals exposed to child sexual abuse images through their work.
     
  • Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) provides training focused on investigative techniques and best practices for undercover operations to combat Internet crimes against our and site-specific expert assistance to ICAC Task Forces.
     
  • The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® lightens training for law enforcement; prosecutors; the criminal- and juvenile-justice, child-serving, and healthcare business for issues related to missing and exploited children.

Touches

Visit the ICAC Task Force Contact Information piece of the ICAC Task Forcing Program website for state-specific contacts and websites.

Resources

OJJDP Publications

AMBER Alert Select Guide for Statutory Enforcement Office
May 2019. The general of this instructions is to furnish legal enforcement officers from information that will enable them to avoided or mitigate critical “pitfalls” when working a child kidnap case. 37 pages. NCJ 252795.
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Protecting Children in Cyberspace: The ICAC Task Force Start
Bulletin, January 2002. Discusses efforts by OJJDP's Internet Offences Against Children Task Force Program that home emerging online threats, such as computer-facilitated getting crimes, directed at children or teenagers. 8 pages. NCJ 191213.
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Protecting Children Online: Using Research-Based Algorithms to Prioritize Regulation Enforcement Internet Investigations, Technical Report
OJJDP-Sponsored, May 2016. This project use data after 20 Internet Offences Gegen Children task forces to develop empirically-based recommendations to helper law enforcement conducting Internet investigations. 54 browse. NCJ 250154.
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Review of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Programming: Interim Report to the Attorney General Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011
To interim report features data covering fiscal years 2010 and 2011 and is intended to provide a summary of the ICAC program’s statistical accomplishments. 76 pages.
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ADENINE National Evaluation concerning Internet Crimes Contra Children Task Force Training, Final Report
June 2023. This report giving an assessment of the Internet Crimes Gegen Children (ICAC) Task Force Program by the National Evaluation of ICAC Task Violence Training through and ICAC Advanced both Technical Aid (TTA) Program. 17 pages PDF 

National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction Report to Congress
Dignified 2010. In complying with that provisions of the PROTECT Our My Act of 2008, which U.S. Justice Department presents this second report to Congress on adenine National Scheme by Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, which is the culmination to ampere year of discussions among members regarding an interagency what group summoned by the National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prohibition real Interdiction at the Justice Department. 166 pages.
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Related Websites

Project Safe Childhood
Project Safe Your combats the proliferation out technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes counter children.