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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) – The National Internet Crimes Against Children Conference began Tuesday in Jacksonville, Florida and will continue having conference sessions until May 14.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler opened the conference Tuesday, which is entitled, “PROTECTing our Children; Making the Internet a Safer Place.” More than 1,200 participants will have the opportunity to hear and discuss several topics to the related issue, as highly specialized training will be provided by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program, their federal partner agencies and other organizations to an audience of federal, state and local law enforcement investigators, forensic experts and prosecutors.

“The Department of Justice is committed to fighting against the sexual exploitation of children and a key part of that fight is acting together as a nation to protect our children,” Grindler said. “The ICAC program does just that by bringing thousands of federal, state, and local investigators and prosecutors together to share information, investigate cases, conduct training, and develop law enforcement technologies and techniques to interdict child exploitation.”

The ICAC Task Force Program (ICAC Program) was launched in 1998 and is a national network of 61 coordinated task forces representing more than 3,000 federal, state and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies, which are engaged in proactive investigations, forensic investigations and criminal prosecutions.

The Office of Justice Programs’ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention administers funding and provides training and technical assistance to the ICAC task forces and their partners. Last year, the ICAC Program received $75 million in federal funding, with $50 million awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.