Title 34 — NavyRelease 119-73
§20986 Children’s safety online awareness campaigns
Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Protection of Children and Other Persons › Chapter CHAPTER 209— - CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFETY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - GRANTS AND OTHER PROVISIONS › § 20986
Summary
With the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Attorney General can run public campaigns to teach children, parents, and community leaders how to protect kids online and how to find and use federal and state sex offender registries. The campaigns must use the Internet, television, radio, and billboards. Funding is authorized for fiscal years 2007 through 2011.
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Title 34, §20986
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(a)(1)The Attorney General, in consultation with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is authorized to develop and carry out a public awareness campaign to demonstrate, explain, and encourage children, parents, and community leaders to better protect children when such children are on the Internet.
(2)The public awareness campaign described under paragraph (1) shall include components that compliment 11 So in original. Probably should be “complement”. and reinforce the campaign message in a variety of media, including the Internet, television, radio, and billboards.
(b)The Attorney General, in consultation with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is authorized to develop and carry out a public awareness campaign to demonstrate, explain, and encourage parents and community leaders to better access and utilize the Federal and State sex offender registries.
(c)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as are necessary for fiscal years 2007 through 2011.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16986 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
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34 U.S.C. § 20986
Title 34 — Navy
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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