Which of the following anti-child pornography organizations helps local communities to create
programs and develop strategies to investigate child exploitation?
A.
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC)
B.
Project Safe Childhood (PSC)
C.
Anti-Child Porn.org
D.
Innocent Images National Imitative (IINI)
Explanation:
Project Safe Childhood (PSC) is a Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 that aims to
combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. PSC
coordinates efforts by various federal, state and local agencies and organizations to protect children
by investigating and prosecuting online sexual predators. PSC partners include Internet Crimes
Against Children (ICAC) task forces, the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and
state and local law enforcement officials in each U.S. Attorney’s district. PSC also helps local
communities to create programs and develop strategies to investigate child exploitation.
Answer option A is incorrect. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) is a task-force started by the
United States Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
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 both law enforcement agents and 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 online and distributed through other channels and to catch sexual predators who solicit victims on theInternet through chat rooms, forums and other methods. Currently all fifty states participate in
ICAC.
Answer option C is incorrect. Anti-Child Porn.org (ACPO) is an organization, which has members all
over the world, focusing on the topics related to child exploitation, online predators, and child
pornography. Its Web site provides necessary information for law enforcement to
parents, and other interested organizations. It also provides software such as Reveal, which can be
used to evaluate and check files on a computer for explicit or illegal contents.
Answer option D is incorrect. Innocent Images National Initiative (IINI) is an organization, which is
developed by the FBI as part of its Cyber Crimes program. This organization is established for the
purpose of identifying, investigating, and prosecuting people who use computers for sexual
exploitation of children and child pornography. While performing these tasks, IINI also try to identify
and release children being exploited.
CHFI Course Manual, Contents. “Child Pornography”