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Ask Parry! is a service where Parry Aftab, noted online safety and privacy expert, and Executive Director of WiredSafety.org can answer your questions about online safety, privacy and security, and help you with problems you encounter online. Anything from help finding a safe chat room for your teens, to knowing what to do if the item you bought at auction doesn't arrive as promised.
Which law enforcement agencies in the United States handle cybercrimes?
The FBI Innocent Images Unit is the premier law-enforcement agency charged with finding child sexual molesters in cyberspace. (They call the predators "travelers" since they travel from state to state to meet their victims.) While Innocent Images also handles an occasional child pornography matter, their main focus is on the people who lure and sexually exploit children online.
Innocent Images was formed in 1993 as a result of the first reported cybermolestation - that of a young boy from Maryland. He was the first victim of a cybermolester law enforcement believes was killed. The girl in Connecticut was the second.
Innocent Images is still run from Baltimore, Maryland. Their local teams are also a great way to coordinate local, state, and federal operations in cyberpredator investigations, and make their special expertise available to communities. (I have a special affection and respect for the regional team that operates from New Jersey.)
The Cybersmuggling Unit, a special task force of the U.S. Customs Service, has been set up to handle Internet child pornography cases. It has just recently been organized as a separate unit of Customs. While it also handles the predator cases that emerge from child pornography investigations, its primary jurisdiction is limited to child pornography.
The Customs connection is very important to the worldwide effort, since US Customs has more agents outside of the U.S. than does most other federal law-enforcement efforts. This team works tirelessly to help protect children and to eradicate child pornography.
The FTC (the Federal Trade Commission) is the agency that handles consumer fraud, advertising, and data-collection issues. It handles these cases both online and offline and is one of the most expert Internet regulatory agencies. I think what makes them special is the special people who work there. I don't know any other federal regulatory agency that works shoulder-to-shoulder with the industry to try to improve the environment for children. They really care about children and about the Internet. In addition to their people, their Web site (www.ftc.gov) is a wealth of legal and practical information for Web site operators and consumers alike.