Life. The internet has inspired new crimes with names like online enticement, and sextortion and has become a thriving marketplace for selling children for sex. Many children today have cell phones which function the same as computers. This is why its vital that we work even more closely with our nations schools to help educate them about the dangers on the internet and the real world. As part of our recent reauthorization, you gave us the authority to provide more resources to state and local educational agencies. We have started to use this new authority to expand our programs to protect more children. Among our expanded initiatives with schools are new prevention curriculums, such as our kid smarts prevention curriculum which includes lesson plans and teaching tools set to launch this summer in time for the new school year. Weve also been working to develop more agespecific, gradelevel appropriate online curriculum and related Educational Resources for teachers to download from our
Phone number advertised, called the National Center. We were able to track that phone number to three states in the span of less than three days. We passed that on to Law Enforcement. That girl was recovered during operation cross country. With respect to those children missing from foster care, there are current laws before congress now that we urge congress to pass. Right now, only two states have laws mandating the reporting of children missing from foster care. As has been pointed out, one in seven missing children are also being sexually exploited. 67 of those are coming from foster care children. No one is looking for these children. They cannot be found until they are looked for. So i want to first thank this committee for focusing your efforts and giving us the ability to work more closely with schools, with teachers, with communities. Especially those children with special needs. 1 in 68, according to the cdc, suffer from autism. These children go laundering 50 of the time. Th
But we have to match that up with that scene of that same child. And were able to do that. But were actually working now, the problem is this. Is we cannot be a state actor. If we are a state actor, then we harm Law Enforcements prosecution of these cases which we make referrals to. So we dont accept images from Law Enforcement. We push out to Law Enforcement. Having said that, we have a fairly robust and comprehensive inventory, a library so to speak. Because were being fed by the largest e. S. P. s. Thats my concern about this. Is that you do have this huge database of images and yet it seems that Law Enforcement and cases would benefit and their investigations would benefit if they were required to push the image to you, you might be able to make the match. Well, they have access to ours. They have access, and we coordinate through interpol. So there are common databases that have access points. But again, we have to segregate what we receive from Law Enforcement to ensure its not t
I like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d. C. I think we can all agree to that. Is there more that you can do . If there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point . What is your sense of that . One thing is to do more with less. For instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own inhouse studio. We create the content that we use. We dont have to use thirdparty vendors. I can be expensive. We leverage our partnerships with various companies. They service the distribution platforms. Where we need to be further engaged is getting in front of the schools on a nationwide basis, not on a community by community or even statebystate, but on a nationwide approach because we have the ageappropriate messaging. It is not a onesizefitsall. And we can track these kids fr
Email issue with epka. I think for passage we ought to deal specifically with emails so we can get something and amend it as we progress through technology, keeping its mind, the spirit of the Fourth Amendment as well. Thank you very much for your attention. I appreciate it. Thank you. Ill invite our Panel Members to join me here on stage, as formidable panel as one could ask for an event like this. Joining me, we have if youre here, greg new james from i know quite well. A Senior Council of the senate for democracy and technology and the hed of the project on freedom, security and technology and cochair of the american Bar Committee on American Civil Liberties. And an attorney in private practice and director of Legal Services for the American Discrimination Committee as well as Legislative Council at the American Civil Liberties union. A veteran of the fight for judicial privacy and is also a driving force behind the digital due process coalition. We have several members represented