§21111 Establishment of National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

Summary

The Attorney General must create and carry out a National Strategy to prevent and stop child exploitation. The plan must be sent to Congress no later than one year after October 13, 2008, and then on February 1 every four years after that. The strategy must explain current and future trends (including new technology), set goals and solutions, and show how Federal, State, local, Tribal, and international partners and the private sector will work together. It must review Justice Department programs, training, investigations, and prosecutions, and estimate the resources needed for each ICAC task force, the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Postal Service, the criminal investigative offices of the Department of Defense, and any related agency component. The plan must also review the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program: how many task forces exist and where, staff numbers, federal grants, and how well agencies cooperate, including numbers of arrests, referrals to U.S. attorneys, prosecutions, convictions, and local cases. It must assess training needs, tally investigations, arrests, prosecutions, convictions, and average and maximum sentences, and report available statistics on child pornography trafficking (including counts of foreign and domestic suspects and CyberTipline tips). The Attorney General must name a senior DOJ official with child‑exploitation investigative or prosecutorial experience to be the National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction. That job must be in the Senior Executive Service and includes coordinating agencies, knowing budget and DOJ/FBI efforts, acting as a liaison, and explaining the strategy to Congress and answering questions when asked.