Recovery Act - Internet Crimes against Children Task Force Program (ICAC)

The ICAC Task Force Program supports a national network of multiagency, multijurisdictional task forces and other projects to prevent technology facilitated child sexual exploitation with at least one task force in each of the 50 states. The ICAC task forces provide forensic and investigative technical assistance to law enforcement and prosecutorial officials, as well as community education information to parents, educators, prosecutors, law enforcement, and others concerned with child victimization. As provided for in Section 103 of the Protect Our Children Act of 2008 (the "Protect Act"), the ICAC task forces shall be dedicated to the following: • increasing the investigative capabilities of state and local law enforcement officers in the detection, investigation, and apprehension of Internet crimes against children offenses or offenders, including technology-facilitated child exploitation offenses. • conducting proactive and reactive Internet crimes against children investigations. • providing training and technical assistance to ICAC task forces and other Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in the areas of investigations, forensics, prosecution, community outreach, and capacity-building, using recognized experts to assist in the development and delivery of training programs. • increasing the number of Internet crimes against children offenses being investigated and prosecuted in both Federal and state courts. • creating a multiagency task force response to Internet crimes against children offenses within each state. • enhancing nationwide responses to Internet crimes against children offenses, including assisting other ICAC task forces, as well as other Federal, state, and local agencies with Internet crimes against children investigations and prosecutions. • developing and delivering Internet crimes against children public awareness and prevention programs. • participating in such other activities, both proactive and reactive, that will enhance investigations and prosecutions of Internet crimes against children. In addition to fulfilling program-specific purposes, projects funded under the Recovery Act should be designed to further one or more of the general purposes of the Recovery Act, which are to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery; to assist those most impacted by the recession; to provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health; to invest in transportation, environmental protection, or other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits; and to stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive State and local tax increases.