34 U.S.C. § 20944 — Expansion of training and technology efforts

(a) Training: The Attorney General must (1) expand training for federal, State, and local law enforcement officers and prosecutors so they can respond to sex offenders who use the Internet and technology to solicit or exploit children; (2) arrange meetings with companies that sell computer hardware or software or provide Internet services to the public, to spot problems tied to technology being used to exploit children; (3) host national conferences to train federal, State, and local law enforcement officers, probation and parole officers, and prosecutors in proactive ways to monitor sex offenders' online activity; (4) create and hand out materials for those same people about combined approaches to holding offenders to the terms of their probation, parole, and registration; and (5) partner with other agencies to better coordinate joint investigations that fight online solicitation of children by sex offenders. (b) Technology: The Attorney General must (1) give every Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and its partner agencies technology modeled on the Canadian Child Exploitation Tracking System, and (2) train people to use that technology. (c) Report: By July 1, 2007, the Attorney General must send Congress a report on the activities carried out under this section, including any recommendations the Attorney General thinks are appropriate. (d) Authorization of appropriations: For fiscal year 2007, Congress authorized $1,000,000 for the training work in subsection (a) and $2,000,000 for the technology work in subsection (b).