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S. 1738: Combating Child Exploitation Act of 2008
Hopefully they do not attach unrelated items to the bill in order to improve it's chance of passing.
Warriors For Innocence-Hunting pedophiles on the web
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Finding the child pornographers is not the main problem right now, providing the man power and resources to go after them is. Help law enforcement to be able to go after all of the child predators that they find. Right now, they are so understaffed and outnumbered, that they can only go after about 2% of all child pornographers that they know about.
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S. 1738 - Summary: Combating Child Exploitation Act of 2008 (GovTrack.us)
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7/7/2008--Reported to Senate amended.
Combating Child Exploitation Act of 2008 -
Title I - National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction
Section 101 -
Directs the Attorney General to create and implement a National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction (National Strategy). Sets forth the required content of such National Strategy, including: (1) comprehensive long-range goals for reducing child exploitation; (2) annual budget priorities and federal efforts for combating child exploitation; (3) a five-year projection for program and budget goals and priorities; (4) a review of the policies and work of the Department of Justice (DOJ) related to child exploitation crimes; (5) a description of DOJ efforts to coordinate with international, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and private entities on child exploitation prevention and interdiction efforts; (6) a review of ICAC Task Force Programs; (7) plans for reducing the backlog of forensic analysis for child exploitation cases; (8) a review of federal programs for child exploitation prevention and education; (9) plans for liaisons with the judiciary on matters relating to child exploitation; and (10) a review of statistical data indicating the overall magnitude of U.S. and international child pornography trafficking.
Requires the Attorney General to designate a DOJ senior official to coordinate and develop the National Strategy.
Section 102 -
Establishes within DOJ a National Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program consisting of state and local task forces (including at least one ICAC Task Force for each state) to address online enticement of children, child exploitation, and child obscenity and pornography.
Section 103 -
Sets forth the purposes of the ICAC Task Force Program, including: (1) increasing the investigative capabilities of state and local law enforcement officers in the detection and investigation of child exploitation crimes facilitated by the Internet and the apprehension of offenders; (2) providing training and technical assistance to ICAC task forces and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; (3) increasing the number of Internet crimes against children offenses to be investigated and prosecuted; (4) enhancing the nationwide response to Internet crimes against children offenses; and (5) developing and delivering Internet crimes against children public awareness and prevention programs.
Section 104 -
Sets forth the duties and functions of state and local ICAC task forces relating to investigations, forensic examinations, and prosecutions of Internet crimes against children.
Section 105 -
Directs the Attorney General to establish a National Internet Crimes Against Children Data System to assist the National ICAC Task Force Program and federal, state, local, and tribal agencies investigating and prosecuting child exploitation. Requires the Data System to develop and maintain a technology and training program to provide: (1) a secure system of online communications between ICAC task forces and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies regarding ongoing investigations; (2) a secure online system for resolving case conflicts; (3) a secure data storage and analysis system; and (4) guidelines and technical assistance for the use of the Data System by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
Directs the Attorney General to establish an ICAC Data System Steering Committee.
Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2016.
Section 106 -
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to state and local ICAC task forces. Sets forth criteria for the distribution of ICAC grants funds.
Requires state or local ICAC task forces receiving grants to submit annual reports to the Attorney General on the operations of such task forces.
Requires the Attorney General to report to Congress on: (1) the progress of ICAC task forces; and (2) the number of federal and state investigations, prosecutions, and convictions in the prior 12-month period related to child exploitation.
Section 107 -
Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2016.
Title II - Additional Measures to Combat Child Exploitation
Sec. 201) Requires the Attorney General to: (1) establish additional computer forensic capacity to address the current backlog for computer forensics, including for child exploitation investigations; and (2) report to Congress annually on the use of funds for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2016.
Section 202 -
Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2016 for the hiring of additional Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and personnel to work solely on child exploitation cases as part of the FBI's Innocent Images National Initiative.
Section 203 -
Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2016 for the hiring of additional full-time personnel in the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Postal Service to work solely on child exploitation and obscenity cases.
Title III - Effective Child Pornography Prosecution
Section 301 -
Amends the federal criminal code to expand the jurisdictional bases for prosecutions of crimes involving child exploitation, selling or buying of children, material involving sexual exploitation of minors or containing child pornography, and obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.
Section 302 -
Expands the crime of child sexual exploitation to prohibit the transmission of live images of child abuse.
Section 303 -
Expands the definition of "visual depiction" for purposes of child exploitation crimes to include data capable of conversion into a visual image transmitted by any means.
Section 305 -
Prohibits the alteration of a visual depiction of an identifiable minor child so that it depicts child pornography.
Section 306 -
Allows a provider of electronic communication or remote computing services to voluntarily report apparent child pornography violations directly to a foreign law enforcement agency.
Title IV - National Institute of Justice Study of Risk Factors
Requires the National Institute of Justice, not later than one year after the enactment of this Act, to: (1) prepare a report on investigative factors that indicate whether a subject of an online child exploitation investigation poses a higher risk of harm to children; and (2) submit such report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Authorizes appropriations.
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