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Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force
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Learn how to protect children from online predators.
More kids than ever before are online. And there are more predators seeking to groom, exploit and solicit children and teens for sexual photos. The Michigan Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program was developed to counter the emerging threat of offenders using the Internet or other online technology to sexually exploit children.
Internet crimes against children:
When someone uses the internet to exploit, endanger or harm children. This can include things such as: pornography, sextortion, solicitation, or online grooming.
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Contact us to request a presentationImportant facts:
- Internet crimes happen to all types of children - a range of ages, sexes, and even "good" kids. Any child could be at risk.
- One in five children per year receives an unwanted sexual solicitation online.
- Around any given time, 50,000 predators are on the Internet actively seeking out children.
- In 2024, Michigan had 145 arrests, arrested 16 hands-on offenders and identified 46 new child victims from images.
- In over a quarter of all reported exploitation incidents, the online predator will ask a child for sexually explicit photos of themselves.
What types of activity should be reported?
Report these types of activity:
- Nudes or sexual images/videos of a child.
- Someone chatting online with a child about sex.
- Sexual abuse of a child that occurs offline.
- Someone seeking sexual acts in exchange for something of value (e.g., money, food, gas, shelter, clothing, drugs).
- Unwanted sexual emails or texts either involving children or sent to a child.
- Websites or domains that contain sexual content but have similar names or URLs to mainstream sites that may be misleading to children.
- Websites or domains that have sexual content (words or images) embedded in them which minors might see.
- And other forms of sexual exploitation of a child not listed here.