After a meeting with federal law enforcement officials here recently, Adult Sites Against Child Pornography has announced new procedures for reviewing child pornography reports - including a way for the child porn-fighting organization’s brass to evaluate suspect sites visually themselves without running afoul of the law.
ASACP representatives met with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Safe Team to evaluate the ASACP review and report procedures. According to ASACP executive director Joan Irvine, the group developed three new steps: including supplemental information like site registration, hosting company, and billing company in ASACP reports to authorities; using the member ID and password submitted with a report to review a site, and investigating reports of spam email that advertises sites child porn.
ASACP received more than 3,000 reports of suspicious material in February alone, after which they reported just over 90 bona-fide child porn sites. The FBI has issued subpoenas for most of those, Irvine said.
The group will continue reviewing only Websites, not newsgroups, chat boards, IRC chat rooms, and other online venues, Irvine said. Those should be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. ASACP will continue sending confirmed reports only to the FBI and the NCMEC, Irvine added, to prevent several government agencies from working separately on the same cases.
