Protect our Children First Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1829
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-07-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Inspectors general
Missing children
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: 
Protect our Children First Act of 2007 - Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to: (1) revise and expand the required uses for the annual grant made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and (2) reauthorize the missing children's assistance and the NCMEC grant programs through FY2013.

Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to allow Inspector General staff members to assist the NCMEC in conducting reviews of inactive missing children case files.

action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
Protect our Children First Act of 2007 
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Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to expand the activities for which annual grant funds to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) may be used to include: (1) annual reporting on the actual number of missing and abducted children nationwide and the number of children recovered; (2) technical and forensic assistance to law enforcement agencies to locate and recover missing and exploited children; (3) deployment of the National Emergency Child Locator Center to reunite missing children with parents during periods of national disasters; (4) expansion of the cyber tipline for reporting sex tourism involving children, extrafamilial child sexual molestation, and unsolicited obscene material sent to a child; (5) efforts to reduce the distribution on the Internet of images and videos of sexually exploited children; (6) operation of the Child Victim Identification Program for identifying victims of child pornography and other sexual crimes; and (7) educational programs for preventing child abduction and exploitation and for safe use of the Internet. 

Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2013 for missing children's programs and for grants to NCMEC.

Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to allow Inspector General staff members to assist the NCMEC in conducting reviews of inactive missing children case files unless such assistance will interfere with the duties of the Inspector General.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 544.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9621-9622)
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9620-9621)
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Introduced in Senate