|
 Welcome to the Child Exploitation and Obscenity
Section (CEOS) website. Created in 1987, the mission of the Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) is to protect the welfare of America’s
children and communities by enforcing federal criminal statutes
relating to the exploitation of children and obscenity.
As the
nation’s experts in child exploitation and obscenity issues, CEOS
leads the Department of Justice in its endeavor to continuously improve
the enforcement of federal child exploitation and obscenity laws and
prevent the exploitation of children and families. CEOS attorneys
prosecute defendants who have violated federal child exploitation and
obscenity laws and also assist the 93 United States Attorney Offices in
investigations, trials, and appeals related to these offenses. In addition,
CEOS attorneys perform other vital functions within the Criminal
Division of the Department of Justice, including providing advice and
training to federal prosecutors, law enforcement personnel, and
Department of Justice officials, developing prosecution policies,
legislation, government practices and agency regulations, and
participating in national and international meetings on training and
policy development. In all aspects of their work, CEOS attorneys seek
to blend prosecutorial experience with policy expertise in order to
create innovative solutions to the threat posed by those who violate
child exploitation and obscenity laws.
More...
|
Remarks Prepared for
Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey
at the Project Safe Childhood National Conference
September
23, 2008, Good morning. Thank you, Ernie, for that introduction, and
for the extraordinary work you and your colleagues do at the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children. As some of you may know, Ernie’s center,
known as NCMEC for short, was one of the first places I visited as
Attorney General. I saw their Wall of Recent Recoveries; a wall
filled with the success stories of children found and cases solved.
Of all the monuments and memorials I've seen in Washington – and I’ve
now seen a lot of them – that wall is one of the most uplifting
monuments I've come across. It is a powerful reminder of what this
work is all about..
To read the entire speech, click here.
|
|
|
|
Remarks of Attorney
General Michael B. Mukasey at the Project
Safe Childhood National Conference
December
5, 2007, Although I am just beginning my service as Attorney General,
it has not taken me long to understand the great value of Project Safe
Childhood. PSC has been a priority of the Department and I want to
reassure you that I am committed to its continued success. The
consequences of doing anything else are unacceptable. Simply put, our
children need our protection. The crimes you investigate are not
victimless; they are not harmless diversions or simple demonstrations
of love, as some have argued. They are terrible crimes that we as a
society cannot tolerate.
To read the entire speech, click here.
|
|
|
Project
Safe Childhood (PSC) aims to combat the proliferation of
technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children.
To view the Project Safe Childhood web site, click here.
The Project Safe Childhood Guide is available here.
|
|
INTERACTIVE TOOLS 
|
U.S. Department of
Justice, Criminal Division ° Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section
(CEOS)
1400 New York Avenue,
6th Floor ° Washington,
D.C. 20530
Legal Policies | Privacy Policy | Criminal Division Home Page | DOJ
Home Page
|
