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Sheriff's Office of Bedford County Internet Crimes against Children Task Force 28% friends, 4 % at school Lori's notes
 * A session on the compliance session
 * Working on compliance rubric
 * Look at sheet that was in the registration bag for website regarding child dev
 * Protecting children against secual predators is the focus
 * Target is child pornography
 * One of 10 original task forces in the US
 * Covers all of Virginia
 * Mission is to safeguard children from internet crime
 * What do they do?
 * Fight child abuse through the investigation of those manufacturing, possessing and distributing child pornography
 * Identify and arrest offender
 * Couple of more things
 * Child porn is if somebody is depicted as being less than 18
 * Variety of sex crimes = child porn, sex acts, prostitution, sex tourism, unsolicited obscene material, misleading domain names
 * Variety of methods of how they do their job
 * All the cases in Arizona that were on Data Line were dismissed - These guys have a 100% conviction rate
 * Variety of law enforcement partners
 * Reviewed some cases….read a chat
 * The VB police department seems to cover the same types of things.
 * Will need to look at their materials to see if they can be used though
 * Reality of the Internet
 * Most solictication happen at home - 70%
 * Mostly happens in chat rooms and Ims
 * Videos he showed are similar as those Janene used….available through the DOE site -NetSmartz…same one she showed
 * Presentation Janene put together using the resources on the DOE site is better for our use in schools
 * Preferetioanl officenrs in chat rooms
 * 14 or younger….male or female
 * Enjoy having sex 16 or under
 * Says that AOL are very law enforcement friendly
 * Will travel to give presentations - will likely want to list them as a resource for various schools and groups….may want to look into using them for a city-wide type of meeting