Internet Crimes Against Children


Internet Crimes Against Children is a task force started by the United States Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1998. Its primary goals are to provide state and local law enforcement agencies the tools to prevent Internet crimes against children by encouraging multi-jurisdictional cooperation, as well as educating law enforcement agents, parents, and teachers. The aims of ICAC task forces are to catch distributors of child pornography on the Internet, whether delivered on-line or solicited on-line and distributed through other channels and to catch sexual predators who solicit victims on the Internet through chat rooms, forums and other methods. Currently all fifty states participate in ICAC.
There is some controversy surrounding the nature of job of the ICAC, specifically in relation to the Adam Walsh act and SORNA. there is a provision in the act which states the scope of work as "proactive investigation". neither blacks law dictionary or any section of the Adam Walsh act or SORNA provides a clue as to the definition legally of what a "proactive investigation" is or can be. Officers are taught in an "elective" class manner, taking a class called "Precrime", and often perform sting operations online using popular sites like Craigslist. These sting operations are conducted without warrant and without probable cause. Only 17 states have adopted the Adam Walsh act and SORNA at this time.