In a
ceremony held Sept. 30 at the Franklin Police Department, Richard Whidden, the
Executive Director and Senior Counsel of the National Law Center for Children
and Families presented the Criminal Investigation Division's Special Victims
Unit with the Child Defender Award.
Detective Sergeant Eric
Anderson heads the Special Victim's Unit, comprised of four detectives.
Detectives Becky Johnson and Tamara Smith specialize in investigating child sex
and physical abuse cases as well as domestic violence related cases. Detectives
Stephanie Cisco and Brett Kniss serve as the Department's Internet Crimes
Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators, focusing on investigating and
arresting child sex predators who use computers and the Internet to exploit
children.
All five recipients
recently attended The NLC PROTECTS training in East Tennessee where they
learned advanced investigative and evidence-gathering techniques for catching
child predators.
The National Law Center for Children and Families invites law enforcement professionals to register for the NLC PROTECTS National Seminar "Confronting the Challenge of Sexual Exploitation."
The National Law Center
for Children and Families is working to forge a connection between the law
enforcement community and the technological innovators of the private sector to
combat child exploitation. This is a proactive endeavor to unite the forces
that battle child exploitation in our country. The private sector, especially
in the high-tech arena, has much to bring into this battle, and the NLC wants
to act as the catalyst to bring these forces together. To read an article by NLC Executive Director Richard Whidden on this topic read The Missing Battalion .
On
January 20-22, 2009, the NLC will host the first annual Child Defenders'
Technology Expo in Orlando,
Florida. The technology expo is
aimed at all levels of law enforcement to encourage collaboration and
networking among those working in the field and will run concurrently with the
NLC PROTECTS National Seminar.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has an anonymous CyberTipline for you to report any activity which involves child pornography or child exploitation, including online luring activities. Click on the image below to report:
The National Law Center for Children and Families is proud to announce that it will be an exhibitor at the 7th Annual National Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Conference. This year the National ICAC Conference is being held in conjunction with the Department of Justice's Project Safe Childhood conference. This conference will be held in Columbus, Ohio the week of September 22, 2008.
