As former Attorney General Mukasey said in
addressing the 2008 Project Safe Childhood National Conference, "The
mission of Project Safe Childhood is, simply put: to protect children
from online exploitation and abuse. It is simple to describe our
mission. It is not simple to accomplish it; it takes a lot of collaboration
and a lot of hard work. That work is at the same time some of the
most grueling, and some of the most rewarding, an investigator
or a prosecutor can do. There are few challenges that we in law
enforcement take on where it can so clearly be said that we are
fighting on the side of the angels." The Office of Legal Policy
(OLP) takes the lead in developing and coordinating DOJ policies
to protect children from such exploitation and abuse. Some of OLP's
recent efforts in this area have included working with Congress
to secure enactment of the Adam Walsh Act; drafting regulations
to implement provisions of that Act, including regulations under
18 U.S.C. ยงยง 2257 and 2257A to require pornography producers to
document that they do not use under-age performers; drafting legislation
to strengthen the laws against child pornography and developing
procedures to ensure that convicted sex offenders are tracked through
mandatory registration databases.
National
Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification
Remarks
Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey
at the Project Safe Childhood National Conference (09-23-08)
Remarks
Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey
at the National Missing Children's Day Ceremony (05-21-08)
Prepared
Remarks of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at the Project
Safe Childhood National Conference (12-05-07)
Remarks
Prepared for Delivery by Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip
at the Project Safe Childhood Press Conference in Lexington,
Kentucky (05-07-08)
Project Safe Childhood
Testimony
of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Laurence E. Rothenberg
on Justice Department Proposals To Combat Child Exploitation
over the Internet (October 17, 2007)
Remarks
of Assistant Attorney General Rachel L. Brand before the Project
Safe Childhood National Conference (December 5, 2006)
Adam
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006
Regulations
Requiring Pornography Producers to Maintain Records of the Ages
of Performers
Department
of Justice Proposed Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention
Amendments (2006)
Department
of Justice Proposed Child Pornography Amendments of 2006 (May
15, 2006)
Department
of Justice Proposed Child Pornography Prevention and Obscenity
Prosecution Act (2005)
Other resources:
SMART Office
DOJ Criminal Division, Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section
Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Crimes Against Children Program
National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children
National Sex Offender Public Website
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