ISC2 ISSMP Exam - Topic 5 Question 8 Discussion

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 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.

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.