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Gregg Comments on Ten Year Anniversary of Cybertipline

Press Release

Date: March 10, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Criminal Justice


GREGG COMMENTS ON TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF CYBERTIPLINE

U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) today made the following statement on the ten year anniversary of CyberTipline, the nation's online system for reporting suspected sexual exploitation of children. Ten years ago, as then Chairman of the Senate Appropriations' Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary (CJS), Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to create the CyberTipline, and provided approximately $2 million in federal funding to launch the program in March 1998. As a current member of the CJS subcommittee, Senator Gregg continues to strongly support work being done by the NCMEC. Please see NCMEC release attached for further details on the CyberTipline program.

Senator Gregg stated, "Keeping our children safe is one of our greatest priorities, and I want to congratulate the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on the 10th anniversary of the CyberTipline. This reporting system is a vital tool for law enforcement and their efforts to combat sex crimes against children. Over the years, CyberTipline has processed hundreds of thousands of reports and helped bring to justice thousands of offenders. Unfortunately, sex crimes against children are still a serious problem. I will continue to work with the Center to ensure that it has the resources necessary to operate the CyberTipline and carry out its critical work on behalf of children."

Ernie Allen, President & CEO of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, stated, "At a Senate hearing in 1997, Senator Judd Gregg asked who parents are supposed to contact if they think their children are being targeted online. Senator Gregg called for the creation of a CyberTipline, and in 1998, it was born. Today, ten years and 570,000 reports later, thousands of offenders have been prosecuted, and mililions of children are safer."


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