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SEARCH 2022 Internet Crimes Against Children National Training and Technical Assistance Program
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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
The lightning-fast evolution of technology poses significant challenges for law enforcement in keeping up with the constant stream of updates to electronic applications and devices. Historically, law enforcement has often adopted a reactive stance when dealing with these types of crimes. To address this issue effectively, it is crucial that law enforcement agencies have ready access to comprehensive training and technical support enabling them to respond swiftly to cases of technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. The proposed project will expand SEARCH’s multidimensional strategy to provide Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigators, examiners, and prosecutors with training to combat technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. The training component will encompass several core deliverables including hands-on, laboratory-based training; webinars; self-paced training; and conference presentations. A longer-term strategic component to the project will evaluate training and technical assistance to determine practices that other ICAC Task Forces across the country can replicate. In addition, the project will provide for continuous technical assistance to ICAC Task Force members, forensic examiners, and prosecutors throughout the duration or the 12-month project via SEARCH’s well-established web-based national technical assistance program.
The lightning-fast evolution of technology poses significant challenges for law enforcement in keeping up with the constant stream of updates to electronic applications and devices. Historically, law enforcement has often adopted a reactive stance when dealing with these types of crimes. To address this issue effectively, it is crucial that law enforcement agencies have ready access to comprehensive training and technical support enabling them to respond swiftly to cases of technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. The proposed project will expand SEARCH’s multidimensional strategy to provide Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigators, examiners, and prosecutors with training to combat technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. The training component will encompass several core deliverables including hands-on, laboratory-based training; webinars; self-paced training; and conference presentations. A longer-term strategic component to the project will evaluate training and technical assistance to determine practices that other ICAC Task Forces across the country can replicate. In addition, the project will provide for continuous technical assistance to ICAC Task Force members, forensic examiners, and prosecutors throughout the duration or the project via SEARCH’s well-established web-based national technical assistance program.
