34 U.S.C. § 21112 — Establishment of National ICAC Task Force Program

(a) Establishment: (1) In general: The Department of Justice, under the Attorney General's authority, runs a National Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program (the "ICAC Task Force Program"). It's a national network of state, tribal, military, and local police task forces. These task forces work on stopping online predators from enticing children, fighting child exploitation and child pornography cases, and identifying child victims. (2) Intent of Congress: Congress means for this program to continue the earlier ICAC Task Force Program that started under a 1998 appropriations law and was funded under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. (b) National program: (1) State representation: Every state must have at least one ICAC task force. (2) Capacity and continuity of investigations: To keep investigations and prosecutions running smoothly, the Attorney General must evaluate the funded task forces to see if they're working effectively. (3) Ongoing review: The Attorney General must regularly review how effective each ICAC task force is. The Attorney General can start a new task force or keep an existing one if doing so will fight child exploitation better -- but must tell Congress in advance, and every state must always keep at least one task force. (4) Training: The Attorney General must set up national training programs to support ICAC task forces, including training on the National Internet Crimes Against Children Data System. The Attorney General must also regularly review how effective each training session is, and consider outside reports about federal training funding when awarding future grants. (c) Limited liability for ICAC Task Forces: (1) In general: Normally, nobody can bring a civil claim or criminal charge in any federal or state court against an ICAC task force -- or a participating police agency or its director, officer, employee, or agent -- just because of how they prioritized which leads to work on. (2) Intentional, reckless, or other misconduct: This protection doesn't apply if the task force, agency, or a person there acted with intentional misconduct, actual malice, gross negligence, reckless disregard of a serious risk of physical injury without legal excuse, or for a purpose unrelated to their duties. (3) Rule of construction: This section doesn't create any new basis for a lawsuit against a task force or police agency. It also doesn't expand any liability, or limit any legal defense, that already exists under federal or state law.