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The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private,
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established in 1984 by the
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. In September 2013, the
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,
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, and the
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reauthorized the allocation of $40 million in funding for the organization as part of Missing Children's Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2013. The current
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of the organization is Jon Grosso of
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. NCMEC handles cases of missing minors from infancy to young adults through age 20.


Operations

Primarily funded by the
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, the NCMEC acts as an information clearinghouse and resource for parents, children, law enforcement agencies, schools, and communities to assist in locating missing children and to raise public awareness about ways to prevent
child abduction Child abduction or child theft is the unauthorized removal of a Minor (law), minor (a child under the age of Age of majority, legal adulthood) from the Child custody, custody of the child's Parent, natural parents or Legal guardian, legally appoi ...
, and
child sexual abuse Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in Human sexual activity, sexual activit ...
. John Walsh, Noreen Gosch (mother of
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, who went missing in 1982), and others advocated establishing the center as a result of frustration stemming from a lack of resources and a national coordination between law enforcement and other government agencies. The Center provides information to help locate children reported missing (by parental abduction, child abduction, or running away from home) and to assist physically and sexually abused children. In this resource capacity, the NCMEC distributes photographs of missing children and accepts tips and information from the public. It also coordinates these activities with numerous state and federal law enforcement agencies. The Center not only specializes in locating missing children, but identifying the deceased. There are a number of
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in the country, some of which are children, teenagers and young adults. Like missing children, posters are created for the cases and, if possible, show forensic facial reconstructions of the subject that show an estimation of their appearance while alive. The reconstructions that the NCMEC creates have been regarded to be state-of-the-art and have been stated to have been mistaken for photographs.


History

The Center was founded in 1984, spurred by notable abductions such as the 1981 abduction and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh from a shopping mall in
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, and the 1979 abduction of six-year-old
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from New York City. Because police had the ability to record and track information about stolen cars, guns, and even horses with the FBI's national crime computer, it was believed that the same should be done to find victims and the procurers. In 1984, the U.S. Congress passed the
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, which established a National Resource Center and Clearinghouse on Missing & Exploited Children. On June 13, 1984, the center, formed by Adam Walsh's parents, Revé and John Walsh, alongside other children's advocates, was officially opened by
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in a
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ceremony. The national 24-hour toll-free missing children's hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST, was also established. During the mid to late 1980s, the toy
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became the "Official Spokesbear" for the center at the height of his popularity. Due to this partnership, some stories featured extra information for kids to stay safe from abductions, sexual predators, etc. This also caused his animated series to feature a clip titled "Protect Yourself" in which safety information for kids would be given by then popular child actors. In September 2013, the
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,
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, and the
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voted to reauthorize $40 million in funding for the organization as part of Missing Children's Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 3092; 113th Congress). According to data compiled by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, between 2011 and 2015, 45 percent of children reported missing in America were found after being missing between six and 11 months; 27 percent were found when missing for between one and two years; 19 percent when missing for between two and five years; 5 percent between six and 10 years; 3 percent when missing between 11 and 20 years; and only 1 percent of missing children and found when missing for over 20 years. On average, 49 percent of child abductions are by family members, 27 percent by acquaintances, and 24 percent by individuals unknown to the victim. Each category is dissected into areas such as victim profiling; relationship (if existent) between offender and abductee; the time and location of abduction; and degree of violence utilized to facilitate the abduction. In instances where a child has been abducted by a stranger with homicidal intent, the abduction is most likely to occur in the evening, with death most probable within three hours of the abduction. On April 6, 2018, it was announced in ''
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'' ''magazine'' that the Department of Justice had seized and shut down the website of frequent nemesis of NCMEC,
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, on the grounds that it had frequently facilitated
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. NCMEC released a statement: "The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children just learned that Backpage.com was seized by the FBI, IRS, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service with analytical assistance from the Joint Regional Intelligence Center. This is another step in the years-long fight against the exploitation of victims who were bought and sold for sex on Backpage.com. #NCMEC is waiting alongside the rest of the world to see what will come next. We stand by the victims and their families as they process this news and continue to fight for justice against those who profited from their abuse. #EndSexTrafficking." Most recently, the Center supported the ''PROTECT Our Children Act of 2022'', which passed the United States Senate on November 15, 2022, as well as
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on December 6, 2022. The act reauthorizes funding for the
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(ICAC) and provides support to investigate and arrest perpetrators of sex offenses against children.


Applications to the US seeking return of children

Effective September 5, 1995, applications seeking the return of or access to children in the US under the
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were processed through the NCMEC for the
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, Office of Children's Issues under contract with the US Department of State and the
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. On April 1, 2008, the US Office of Children's Issues re-assumed U.S. Central Authority duties for processing incoming cases under the Hague Abduction Convention. As a result of its status as a government contractor as well as funding provided under the Missing Children Act and Missing Children's Assistance Act, the NCMEC received ()
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40-million funding each year from the US Government.


International

In 1998, the NCMEC Board of Directors approved the creation of a separate international organization, the
International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, with a regional presence in the United Kingdom, Europe, Turkey, Africa, Canada, Latin America, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, India, Jap ...
(ICMEC); the two now act as sister organizations. ICMEC combats
child sexual exploitation Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) defines the "umbrella" of crimes and activities that involve inflicting sexual abuse on to a child as a financial or personal opportunity. Commercial Sexual Exploitation consists of forcing a chil ...
,
child sexual abuse Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in Human sexual activity, sexual activit ...
, and
child abduction Child abduction or child theft is the unauthorized removal of a Minor (law), minor (a child under the age of Age of majority, legal adulthood) from the Child custody, custody of the child's Parent, natural parents or Legal guardian, legally appoi ...
. ICMEC held its first Board of Directors meeting in 1998. It was officially launched in April 1999. ICMEC runs a global missing children's network of 30 countries. ICMEC has trained law enforcement personnel from 121 countries, works with law enforcement in over 100 countries, and has worked with legislatures in 100 countries to adopt new laws combating child sexual abuse. ICMEC also encourages the creation of national operational centers built on a public-private partnership model, and leads global financial and industry coalitions to eradicate child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse. The Koons Family Institute on International Law and Policy is the International Centre's research arm. In August 2008, ICMEC was granted "Special Consultative Status" by the
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(ECOSOC), to assist the UN with its expertise regarding child sexual exploitation and child abduction. ICMEC also works with the
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, the inter-continental organization the
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(OAS), and the
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. NCMEC is an associate of PACT
Parents and Abducted Children Together Action Against Abduction, formerly known as Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT), is an international non-profit organisation which specialises in fighting international child abduction and in helping law enforcement agencies find missing c ...
in the United Kingdom.


iOS 15 partnership and community response

In 2021, the group faced criticism over a partnership with
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to produce and implement monitoring software for
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, intended to continuously monitor all users'
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photos uploaded as part of iCloud Photo Library "to confirm whether it contains child pornography"; the software would send any image to human reviewers that "matches one in the database of the CMEC, and user data would be forwarded to NCMEC for law enforcement review. Users were not to be given an opportunity to opt out of the service, which was described as an unreasonable encroachment on privacy.
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described the updated devices as "iNarcs", while the
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argued that such a
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would require little adaptation to monitor for other types of content, enabling political censorship by governments (who could potentially require Apple to enable such features once available). An editorial in ''
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'' by
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and
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said that, while many platforms (like
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,
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, and
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) have screened public user uploads for a long time, Apple's promise to only evaluate photos which use its iCloud service was a policy decision, not a technological requirement limiting access to users' personal devices. In a company-wide internal letter to Apple employees in response to public opposition to the system, NCMEC’s executive director of strategic partnerships Marita Rodriguez described criticism as the "screeching voices of the minority." For several years, Synchronoss Technologies has provided leads to NCMEC which have resulted in prosecutions.


Controversy

In August 2024, former NCMEC board member Don McGowan criticized the organization's board in a
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podcast appearance, stating, "I mean, NCMEC has data in its stat banks that say some of the kids most at risk in the world are
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kids. And they ignore that data." In February 2025, under threat of losing funding from the federal government under the Trump administration, the NCMEC scrubbed all resources relating to or mentioning LGBT youth, as well as removing resources for male victims of child sex trafficking.


CyberTipline

The NCMEC operates the CyberTipline which was established by Congress to process reports of child sexual exploitation (including sexual abuse, online enticement, and contact offenses). The NCMEC reviews these reports and shares them with the appropriate law enforcement agency or Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force. In addition to the information provided by the reporting party, NCMEC typically adds geolocation information (if appropriate) and cross-references identifying information such as email address, username, or IP address with existing CyberTipline Reports. Anyone can make a report to the CyberTipline but reporting is required for certain electronic service providers (ESP) who become aware of the presence of child sexual abuse on their systems. While ESPs are not required to actively scan for or try to detect child sexual abuse, many of them do. In 2018, the CyberTipline processed 18.4 million reports. In December of 2020, NCMEC’s CyberTipline reached a daunting new milestone after surpassing 100 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation.


'Take It Down' tool

In February 2023, the NCMEC announced its release of the
Take It Down'
tool, a free-to-use service that allows users to anonymously report and remove "nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos" of underage individuals found on social media, blocking the content from being shared. Adults who appeared in such content when they were under the age of 18 can also use the service.
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provided the initial funding to create the service, while platforms such as
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,
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,
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,
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, and Yubo have integrated the tool into their platforms.


Publications

In 2007, NCMEC and
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produced a children's book title ''The Great Tomato Adventure: A Story About Smart Safety Choices'', along with a series of educational tools for parents and guardians of older children called ''Teachable Moments Guides.'' The books were produced and published by Arbor Books, and the foreword was written by
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. Both tools were introduced as an extension of the child safety program that launched in 2006. The book was made available as a free download via the Power of Parents program website.The Great Tomato Adventure: A Story About Smart Safety Choices


Notable board and staff members

* John F. Clark, former President and CEO *
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, former Board Chair * Revé Walsh, Co-Founder and Chair-Elect * John Walsh, Co-Founder *
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, former United States Senator


See also

* AMBER Alert *
Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is an American nonprofit organization that fights Internet child pornography and works to help parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate material online. Most of ASACP's f ...
*
Child abduction Child abduction or child theft is the unauthorized removal of a Minor (law), minor (a child under the age of Age of majority, legal adulthood) from the Child custody, custody of the child's Parent, natural parents or Legal guardian, legally appoi ...
*
Child abduction alert system A child abduction alert system (also Child Alert, Amber alert or Child Rescue Alert) is a tool used to alert the public in cases of worrying or life-threatening disappearances of children. Europe Currently, there are Child Alert systems in 21 ...
*
Child Focus Child Focus (or the European Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children) is a Belgian foundation that supports prevention and investigation of missing children, abducted children, runaway children, and sexually exploited children, along ...
*
Code Adam Code Adam is a missing-child safety program in the United States and Canada, originally created by Walmart retail stores in 1994. This type of alert is generally regarded as having been named in memory of Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of John ...
*
Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and Federal law enforcement in the United States, its principal federal law enforcement ag ...
*
Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography (FCACP) is a coalition of credit card issuers and Internet services companies that seeks to eliminate commercial child pornography by taking action on the payment systems that are used to fund thes ...
*
International child abduction The term international child abduction is generally synonymous with international parental kidnapping, child snatching, and child stealing. In private international law the term usually refers to the illegal removal of children from their h ...
*
Kidnapping Kidnapping or abduction is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will, and is a crime in many jurisdictions. Kidnapping may be accomplished by use of force or fear, or a victim may be enticed into confinement by frau ...
* List of United States quangos *
National Child Victim Identification Program The National Child Victim Identification Program (NCVIP) is the world's largest database of child pornography, maintained by the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the United States Department of Justice and the National Center fo ...
*
National Missing Children's Day National Missing Children's Day has been commemorated in the United States on May 25, since 1983, when it was first proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan. It falls on the same day as the International Missing Children's Day, which was established ...
*
United States Children's Bureau The United States Children's Bureau is a federal agency founded in 1912, organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. Today, the bureau's operations involve improving child a ...
* U.S. Secret Service * Vanished Children's Alliance


References


External links

*
The Global Missing Children's Network

The Nest Foundation

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