Internet Safety Month

June is Internet Safety Month. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) joins our partners in raising awareness about Internet safety and providing resources to keep kids safe online.

This year, OJJDP brings a focus to the crime of sextortion. Sextortion is an online crime that exploits youth through coercion or blackmail to acquire sexual content, engage in sex, or obtain money. 

Partnering with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

OJJDP, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), provides resources, technical assistance, and prevention services to victims and families, as well as support to law enforcement agencies in cases involving missing and exploited children. Visit the NCMEC's NetSmartz program's June is Internet Safety Month webpage to learn more.

Developed with funding support from OJJDP, the NCMEC Safety Pledge website provides free resources to help parents, educators, and caregivers learn more about the risks that children face online and how to respond safely. 

NCMEC's website also offers resources about digital safety for youth, parents, communities, and educators including: 

• NetSmartz's "Internet Safety At Home" tip sheet.
• NetSmartz's "Into the Cloud" toolkit.

OJJDP's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program

OJJDP created the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program (ICAC program) under the authority of the fiscal year (FY) 1998 Justice Appropriations Act, Public Law 105–119. The ICAC program helps state and local law enforcement agencies develop an effective response to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and Internet crimes against children. The ICAC program is a national network of 61 coordinated task forces representing more than 5,400 federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies.