Enforcement, United States Customs and Border 
Protection, and the Coast Guard. 
(2) The Department of State, including the Of-
fice to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, 
the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the Bureau of Inter-
national Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 
and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. 
(3) The Department of Justice, including the 
Interpol-United States National Central Bureau, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Sex 
Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, 
Registering and Tracking, the Criminal Division 
Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and the 
United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Of-
fender Targeting Center. 
(4) Such other officials as may be determined 
by the President. 
(c) LEADERSHIP.—The Center shall be headed by the 
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for United 
States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
(d) ACTIVITIES.—The Center shall carry out the fol-
lowing activities: 
(1) Prior to the implementation of the sex of-
fender travel reporting requirement under section 4, 
cooperate with each jurisdiction to implement the
means for transmitting travel reports from that ju-
risdiction to the Center. 
(2) Prior to the implementation of the sex of-
fender travel reporting system under section 4, offer 
to provide training to officials within each jurisdic-
tion who will be responsible for implementing any 
aspect of such system. 
(3) Establish a means to receive, assess, and re-
spond to an inquiry from a sex offender as to wheth-
er he or she is required to report international travel 
pursuant to this Act. 
(4) Conduct assessments of sex offender travel 
pursuant to section 7. 
(5) Establish a panel to review and respond 
within seven days to appeals from sex offenders who 
are determined to be high interest registered sex of-
fenders. The panel shall consist of individuals who 
are not involved in the initial assessment of high in-
terest registered sex offenders, and shall be from the 
following agencies: 
(A) The Department of Justice. 
(B) The Department of State. 
(C) The Office for Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity.
(6) Transmit notice of impending or current 
international travel of high interest registered sex of-
fenders to the Secretary of State, together with an 
advisory regarding whether or not the period of va-
lidity of the passport of the high interest registered 
sex offender should be limited to one year or such 
period of time as the Secretary of State shall deter-
mine appropriate. 
(7) Establish a system to maintain and archive 
all relevant information related to the assessments 
conducted pursuant to paragraph (4) and the review 
of appeals conducted by the panel established pursu-
ant to paragraph (5). 
(8) Establish an annual review process to en-
sure that the Center Sex Offender Travel Guidelines 
issued pursuant to section 7(a) are being consist-
ently and appropriately implemented. 
(9) Establish a means to identify sex offenders 
who have not reported travel as required under sec-
tion 4 and who are initiating travel, currently trav-
eling, or have traveled outside the United States. 
(e) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY RELATED
TO TRANS-
MISSION OF NOTICE.—The Center may, in its sole discre-
tion, transmit notice of impending or current international 
travel of high interest registered sex offenders to the coun-
try or countries of destination of such sex offenders as 
follows: 
(1) If a high interest registered sex offender 
submits an appeal to the panel established pursuant 
to subsection (d)(5), no notice may be transmitted 
to the destination country prior to the completion of 
the appeal review process, including transmission of 
the panel’s decision to the sex offender. 
(2) The notice may be transmitted through 
such means as determined appropriate by the Cen-
ter, including through an ICE attache´, INTERPOL, 
or such other appropriate means as determined by 
the Center. 
(3) If the Center has reason to believe that 
transmission of the notice poses a risk to the life or 
well-being of the high interest registered sex of-
fender, the Center shall make every reasonable effort 
to issue a warning to the high interest registered sex 
offender of such risk in the travel report receipt con-
firmation provided to the high interest registered sex 
offender pursuant to section 7(c)(2) prior to the 
transmission of such notice to the country or coun-
tries. 
(f) ATTORNEY GENERAL COMPLAINT REVIEW.—The 
Attorney General, in coordination with the Center, shall
establish a mechanism to receive complaints from sex of-
fenders negatively affected by the high interest registered 
sex offender assessment process pursuant to subsection 
(d)(4), the high interest registered sex offender determina-
tion review process pursuant to subsection (d)(5), or the 
travel report confirmation process pursuant to section 
7(c). A summary of these complaints shall be included in 
the annual report to Congress required under section 
14(c)(4). 
(g) CONSULTATIONS.—The Center shall engage in 
ongoing consultations with— 
(1) NCMEC, ECPAT–USA, Inc., World Vision, 
and other nongovernmental organizations that have 
experience and expertise in identifying and pre-
venting child sex tourism and rescuing and rehabili-
tating minor victims of international sexual exploi-
tation; 
(2) the governments of countries interested in 
cooperating in the creation of an international sex 
offender travel notification system or that are pri-
mary destination or source countries for inter-
national sex tourism; and 
(3) Internet service and software providers re-
garding available and potential technology to facili-
tate the implementation of an international sex of-
fender travel notification system, both in the United 
States and in other countries. 
(h) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security and the Secretary of State may pro-
vide technical assistance to foreign authorities in order to 
enable such authorities to participate more effectively in 
the notification program system established under this 
section. 
SEC. 7. CENTER SEX OFFENDER TRAVEL GUIDELINES. 
(a) ISSUANCE OF CENTER SEX OFFENDER TRAVEL 
GUIDELINES.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Center shall issue the Cen-
ter Sex Offender Travel Guidelines for the assessment of 
sex offenders— 
(1) who report international travel from the 
United States to another country pursuant to sec-
tion 4(a), or 
(2) whose travel is reported pursuant to sub-
section (b), 
for purposes of determining whether such sex offenders 
are considered high interest registered sex offenders by 
United States law enforcement. 
(b) LAW ENFORCEMENT NOTIFICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Federal, State, local, tribal, 
or territorial law enforcement entities or officials