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H.R. 3845, The PROTECT Our Children Act of 2007
- This bill has been mooted by the passage of another bill on the same subject or by other events. Check 'Related Bills' below to see if other bills on this subject have been passed into law. Mooted: 10/13/2008.
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
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H.R. 3845 would establish a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute child predators.
== Detailed Summary ==
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Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats to Our Children Act of 2007 or the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2007 - Requires the Attorney General to appoint a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of Deputy Attorney General to coordinate Department of Justice (DOJ) policies and strategies for the prevention and investigation of child exploitation cases.
Establishes within the Office of Justice Programs in DOJ an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC Task Force), consisting of state and local task forces (one task force for each state) to address online enticement of children, child exploitation, and child obscenity and pornography cases.
Requires the Attorney General to establish a National Internet Crimes Against Children Data Network Center to assist the ICAC Task Force program and federal, state, local, and tribal agencies investigating and prosecuting child exploitation.
Authorizes the Office of Justice Programs to award grants to state and local ICAC task forces to combat Internet crimes against children.
Requires the Attorney General to establish additional computer forensic capacity to address backlogs, including for child exploitation investigations.
Authorizes funding for additional agents and personnel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Requires the Attorney General to report to Congress annually on resources used to investigate and prosecute child exploitation and child obscenity cases.
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== Status of the Legislation ==
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Latest Major Action: 11/13/2007: House floor actions.11/14/2007: Passed/agreed to in House. Status: AtOn motion to suspend the conclusion of debate, the Yeasrules and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuantpass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 415 - 2 (Roll no. 1091).
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Jennifer Ferreira
January 7, 2008, 5:34am (report abuse)The focus needs to go on the true predators and purveyors of child pornography, those who commit the act against a child and those who profit from it. These laws are doing nothing to protect children from whom they are REALLY in danger of- over 90% of children are molested by someone they know, whether a family member, coach, teacher or other person of authority. Stop this madness and focus on STOPPING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY by making it UNAVAILABLE, PERIOD! Individuals and families are being destroyed by these harsh punishments! I urge Congress and the people of the U.S. to focus on TRUE PREDATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R2R
January 9, 2008, 8:36am (report abuse)I was a child that wasn't protected!!! It's horrible to know that any child should have to ever go thru being molested by anyone!! It's an awful and very hard to recover from. It is with you your WHOLE life, not a second goes by that it doesn't affect a child that has endured such pain.
I believe all that do this, man woman, should be punished to the maximum heights.
DEATH!!!!!!!!
Be it thru computers, family members, preachers, teachers, friends. You have to be an extremly sick and twisted individual to get your thrills and kicks from harming innocent children. I believe public hangings and immediate executions should be brought back.
Maybe then our children would be safe. And the PREDATORS will be HISTORY for good.
Darlene
May 28, 2008, 8:17am (report abuse)I beleive in protecting our children but when it comes to ex's forcing fathers into prisons for sexual molestation in order for them to get full custody, this is wrong. their statements are coerced and to err on the safe side they are convicting innocent men. Not all fathers are molestors.
Investagators do not investagate they discriminate.they need to go back to school.and learn that a lie is a lie. truth no longer matters in the court system.
Protect our children from the true molestors.
traci
September 15, 2008, 8:23pm (report abuse)please enforce this bill to protect our babies. if you can send men to the moon you have to be able to find a way to find these demons. put them away on an island somewhere and never let them off. they can not be reformed. the constitution when it was written was not meant to be bent in such a way to protect or give rights to child molesters. wake up. enough is enough. i am the mother of a 22, 18, 8, and 7 year old children. i can not nor will i allow my younger two spend the night at anyone's home. this country is going insane and the world is a very scary place to be in anymore. please help.
traci
alabama
Dale
September 16, 2008, 9:54am (report abuse)If it is not strangers who commit these crimes, why are we creating legislation to find strangers?
Perhaps a national tipster program for people who suspect a family member is a molester is a better idea to target people than to search everybody else's computer.
Carolina
September 16, 2008, 1:00pm (report abuse)Dale: Strangers are committing a crime anytime they view or trade photos and videos of children being abused. They are also creating a market for these items which "normalizes" the behavior and allows people close to the victims further avenues to exploit. DO NOT MINIMIZE THE CRIME! Educate yourself about the need for this bill instead of deciding that it's not important. BTW hotlines already exist for people to turn in loved ones. However, some loved ones care more about protecting the violater from prison than protecting an innocent child. That's why this bill is needed.
Justina
September 20, 2008, 8:32pm (report abuse)This bill does help those that are victims of people close to them. Do you all think that the kids being raped and molested live on the internet are not some of those people OWN CHILDREN?? Look into the bill and facts more and you will find that a lot of those kids that are being broadcasted live in those videos ARE THOSE PEOPLE OWN CHILDREN OR RELATIVES!!!!!!!!!! Support the bill. If we are going to put our money into the faith of anything, it should be for our children.
Kristopher
October 16, 2008, 10:01am (report abuse)The bill is being passed to eliminate the INTERNET side of predators. There are laws in motion that eliminate the local predators and those inside the home. This bill is simply created to make restrictions on the internet something we have been seeing more and more of.