A
Report to the Community. Completion
of a second operational year
as a law enforcement program
in Fairfax County in 2006 resulted in sufficient law enforcement
casework and data to permit ChildSafeNet to issue a first Report
to the Community on the progress and results of the P’CASO
partnership to date. Click here to read the P’CASO partnership
report.
P’CASO
(Protecting Children Against
Sex Offenders) law enforcement program fully launched. With full funding from ChildSafeNet,
the Fairfax County Police Department launched the first law
enforcement component of the P’CASO program in Fall 2004. The
program was fully operational as of May 2006, and now includes:
four SPEAD (Sexual Predator Enforcement and Apprehension Detail)
detectives to proactively monitor registered sex offenders
in Fairfax County; a fulltime Internet surveillance detective
working to intercept predators before they are able to get
to kids, and; a computer forensics analyst to process evidence
for the prosecution of perpetrators.
Success
Stories:
- Sex
offender non-compliance rate
in Fairfax County drops.
At the end of the second full year of P’CASO law enforcement
operations by the Fairfax County Police, the rate of non-compliance
by sex offenders with their terms of release from prison had
dropped by nearly one third, from nearly 35% to less than 25%.
New local sex
offender database is a powerful
community policing tool.
Developed and maintained by the Fairfax County Police as part
of the P’CASO program, a robust new local law enforcement database
of current information on registered sex offenders in Fairfax
County is now instantly available to all officers, right down
to the neighborhood patrol level.
Congratulations to the FCPD
P’CASO team for their fine work.
International
Association of Chiefs of
Police (IACP) Study.
The P’CASO partnership between
ChildSafeNet and the Fairfax
County Police Department was one of thirteen law enforcement
programs nationwide featured in a study report published mid-2006
by the IACP. The report, entitled Managing Sex Offenders: Citizens
Supporting Law Enforcement, included an article on P’CASO, Protecting
Children on the Internet, which included IACP conclusions in
the following categories: assessing the need, operational response,
successes, challenges, future activities and lessons learned.
Special Thanks: We are grateful
to Congressman Frank R. Wolf,
Senators George Allen and John
Warner, and Congressmen Jim
Moran and Tom Davis for their staunch support of ChildSafeNet’s
efforts to better protect children through the P’CASO partnership
program.
Good
News for United Way of the National
Capital Area, America's Charities and other federated workplace
campaigns. Workplace employee campaign
donors who want to help better
protect children from sexual
predators may designate ChildSafeNet as the recipient of their
contributions by writing in the amount of the gift they wish ChildSafeNet to receive, along with all of the following information
on their employee donation/pledge forms:
ChildSafeNet,
Inc.
PO Box 7144
Fairfax Station, VA, 22039
Community
Education - demand for P’CASO Child/Teen
safety programs spikes. There
has been an ever-growing demand
for Internet Safety education
as media attention increasingly
focuses on online safety
issues. Troubling new Internet sites open up to kids almost daily,
and children and adults alike face new problems and challenges
as this powerful technology delivers the world with just a few
mouse clicks.
- ChildSafeNet
responds quickly to requests for help from the community. ChildSafeNet sponsors child/teen
safety programs that annually
reach hundreds of families
in Fairfax County. Programs
in both “Adults Only” and “Kids Only” formats are sponsored as
a public service to all who live and work in Fairfax County.
ChildSafeNet programs deliver empowering messages that help the
community better understand how to keep kids from being victimized
or exploited. Click
to learn more.
- ChildSafeNet
programs. ChildSafeNet programs have been presented to
kids and adults in public
and private schools in Fairfax County, to church,
civic and other community groups,
to Northern Virginia Community
College Camps Management Students,
Fairfax County Parks and Recreation
Center Managers, Fairfax
County government employees, business, sports and scouting organizations,
women’s clubs, private investigator associations, the Virginia
Parks and Recreation Society, Fairfax County Police Academy Alumni
and others.
- Partners
in community education. ChildSafeNet
works to access existing expertise
in the community and deliver it at the grassroots community and
neighborhood levels. We want to thank those
who work with us in that effort:
the Fairfax County Police,
the Internet Crimes Against
Children (ICAC) Task Force,
the staff and volunteers from
Childhelp USA/Virginia Children’s
Center, the National Center
for Missing & Exploited
Children, the Child Welfare
League of America, the NetSmartz
Workshop, PRE-ACT, Inc., United
States Homeland Investigations,
Inc. and others who share the goal of making the community as safe as possible for kids, and who generously make their professional knowledge and experience available to the community.
Accountability. ChildSafeNet’s
federal form 990 is available to the public through Watkins,
Meegan, Drury & Company, L.L.C. Contact Melinda L.
Doss, 301.654.7555.
