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Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC Task Force) is a task force started by the
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC Task Force) is a task force started by the United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United Stat ...
's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs. The OJJDP publishes the JRFC Databook on even numbered years for informat ...
(OJJDP) in 1998. The ICAC program is a national network of 61 coordinated task forces representing more than 5,400 federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies to prevent Internet crime
A cybercrime is a crime that involves a computer or a computer network.Moore, R. (2005) "Cyber crime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime," Cleveland, Mississippi: Anderson Publishing. The computer may have been used in committing the ...
s against children. The aims of ICAC task forces are to catch distributors of child pornography
Child pornography (also called CP, child sexual abuse material, CSAM, child porn, or kiddie porn) is pornography that unlawfully exploits children for sexual stimulation. It may be produced with the direct involvement or sexual assault of a ...
on the Internet, whether delivered on-line or solicited on-line and distributed through other channels and to catch sexual predators who solicit victims on the Internet through chat rooms, forums and other methods.
On November 2, 2017, the ''Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats'' to the Protect Our Children Act of 2017 was signed into law, reauthorizing the ICAC Task Force Program through 2022.
On November 15, 2022, the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2022 was passed by the United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
, reauthorizing ICAC and the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction through 2024. On December 6, Congress
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motioned to agree without objection.
See also
*Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section
A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger ...
*Internet Watch Foundation
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a registered charity based in Cambridge, England. It states that its remit is "to minimise the availability of online sexual abuse content, specifically child sexual abuse images and videos hosted anywhe ...
*National Child Victim Identification Program
The National Child Victim Identification Program (NCVIP) is the world's largest database of child pornography, maintained by the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the United States Department of Justice and the National Center for ...
References
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