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The legal obligations and processes for reporting child sexual exploitation, including the role of electronic service providers and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
’s CyberTipline is the centralized intake that receives automated or manual reports from Electronic Service Providers (ESPs) about apparent child sexual exploitation, and NCMEC then curates and forwar...
A to the is routinely reviewed by NCMEC and—when warranted—made available to law enforcement agencies such as task forces and , but NCMEC does not routinely publish downstream investigative steps, so ...
When an electronic service provider or other reporter submits a report, analysts review and attempt to geolocate and enrich the submission, then make the report and associated evidence available to th...
When online platforms or the public report suspected , those reports flow into the ’s , where NCMEC conducts an initial review and channels reports into a case management system that allows law enforc...
Electronic service providers (ESPs) decide what to include in referrals based on statutory duties in that require reporting of apparent , guided by internal detection, review practices, and ’s reporti...