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§20944 Expansion of Training and Technology Efforts

Title 34 › Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons › CHAPTER 209 — CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFETY › SUBCHAPTER I — SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION › Part B — Improving Federal Criminal Law Enforcement To Ensure Sex Offender Compliance With Registration and Notification Requirements and Protection of Children From Violent Predators › § 20944

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must expand training and work with law enforcement, prosecutors, and tech companies to fight sex offenders who use the Internet to lure or harm children. That includes more training for federal, state, and local officers, meetings with companies that make or sell computers and Internet services to find tech problems used to exploit kids, national conferences on how to watch offenders online, materials about how different agencies can hold offenders to probation, parole, and registration rules, and better teamwork for joint investigations. The Attorney General must also give all Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces and their partners technology based on the Canadian Child Exploitation Tracking System and must train them to use it. A report on these activities and any recommendations must go to Congress by July 1, 2007. For fiscal year 2007, $1,000,000 is authorized for the training work and $2,000,000 is authorized for the technology work.

Title 34, §20944

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(a)Training

The Attorney General shall—

(1)expand training efforts with Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers and prosecutors to effectively respond to the threat to children and the public posed by sex offenders who use the Internet and technology to solicit or otherwise exploit children;

(2)facilitate meetings involving corporations that sell computer hardware and software or provide services to the general public related to use of the Internet, to identify problems associated with the use of technology for the purpose of exploiting children;

(3)host national conferences to train Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers, probation and parole officers, and prosecutors regarding pro-active approaches to monitoring sex offender activity on the Internet;

(4)develop and distribute, for personnel listed in paragraph (3), information regarding multidisciplinary approaches to holding offenders accountable to the terms of their probation, parole, and sex offender registration laws; and

(5)partner with other agencies to improve the coordination of joint investigations among agencies to effectively combat online solicitation of children by sex offenders.

(b)Technology

The Attorney General shall—

(1)deploy, to all Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces and their partner agencies, technology modeled after the Canadian Child Exploitation Tracking System; and

(2)conduct training in the use of that technology.

(c)Report

Not later than July 1, 2007, the Attorney General, shall submit to Congress a report on the activities carried out under this section. The report shall include any recommendations that the Attorney General considers appropriate.

(d)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General, for fiscal year 2007—

(1)$1,000,000 to carry out subsection (a); and

(2)$2,000,000 to carry out subsection (b).

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16944 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§20944 Expansion of Training and Technology Efforts

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Title 34, §20944

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