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 Welcome to the
Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) website. Created in
1987, the mission of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS)
is to protect the welfare of America’s children and
communities by enforcing federal criminal statutes relating to the
exploitation of children.
As the
nation’s experts in child exploitation issues, CEOS leads the Department
of Justice in its endeavor to continuously improve the enforcement of
federal child exploitation laws and prevent the exploitation of
children. CEOS attorneys prosecute defendants who have violated federal child
exploitation laws and also assist the 94 United States Attorney Offices
in investigations, trials, and appeals related to these offenses. In
addition, CEOS attorneys perform other vital functions within the
Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, including providing
advice and training to federal prosecutors, law enforcement personnel,
and Department of Justice officials, developing prosecution policies,
legislation, government practices and agency regulations, and
participating in national and international meetings on training and
policy development. In all aspects of their work, CEOS attorneys seek to
blend prosecutorial experience with policy expertise in order to create
innovative solutions to the threat posed by those who violate child exploitation
laws.
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Data Retention
as a Tool for Investigating Internet Child Pornography
Deputy
Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein testified on January 25, 2011,
before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland
Security Subcommittee regarding how law enforcement’s ability to
successfully investigate and prosecute the sexual abuse and exploitation
of children is harmed by the lack of data retention by companies that
provide the public with Internet and cell phone services.
Department of
Justice Releases First National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention
and Interdiction
On
August 2, 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Department
of Justice released its first-ever National Strategy for Child
Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction. The strategy also provides the
first-ever comprehensive threat assessment of the dangers facing children
from child pornography, online enticement, child sex tourism, commercial
sexual exploitation and sexual exploitation in Indian Country, and
outlines a blueprint to strengthen the fight against these crimes.
To learn
more, click here.
Response to
Reluctant Rebellion
Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section Assistant Deputy Chief Alexandra Gelber responds to Mark Hansen’s article “A Reluctant
Rebellion,” which appeared in the June 2009 issue of the ABA Journal. Ms. Gelber
notes that while Mr. Hansen’s article raises questions about the child
pornography sentencing guidelines, his piece speaks to a much more
fundamental question about the legitimacy of the crime at issue. Ms. Gelber's
article exposes the fundamental misunderstandings about the nature of the
crime, the offenders, and the law, that permeate
the ABA Journal article. Ms. Gelber shows how, when properly understood, the
substance and structure of the criminal provisions and sentences for these
pernicious crimes show an appropriate response to an exploding crime
problem.
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Project Safe Childhood (PSC) aims to combat
the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes
against children.
To view the Project Safe Childhood web site, click here.
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