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.
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Response to
Reluctant Rebellion
Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section Assistant Deputy Chief Alexandra Gelber
responds to Mark Hansen’s article “A Reluctant
Rebellion,” which appeared in the June 2009 issue of the ABA
Journal. Ms. Gelber notes that
while Mr. Hansen’s article raises questions about the child
pornography sentencing guidelines, his piece speaks to a much more
fundamental question about the legitimacy of the crime at issue. Ms. Gelber's
article exposes the fundamental misunderstandings about the nature of the
crime, the offenders, and the law, that permeate
the ABA Journal article. Ms. Gelber
shows how, when properly understood, the substance and structure of the
criminal provisions and sentences for these pernicious crimes show an
appropriate response to an exploding crime problem.
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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.
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