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The process of submitting reports to the CyberTipline
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) operates the CyberTipline as a centralized clearinghouse that reviews reports from the public and electronic service providers and then r...
There is no single, publicly reported national figure in the provided reporting that states how many become a local ICAC investigation each year; the system funnels millions of automated and human-gen...
Lead agencies within the network decide whether a gets a through a combination of NCMEC pre‑screening and state/local triage, statutory priorities that favor leads likely to identify or rescue victims...
Investigators who receive a report ordinarily cannot rely on the report alone to obtain full account records, connection logs, or deleted content; the CyberTipline and reporting platforms provide a le...
The clearest quantitative figure in public materials is the average content take-down time: in 2024 NCMEC reports that notices sent to electronic service providers (ESPs) resulted in content removal w...
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reviews every CyberTipline submission and—when it can identify a geographic jurisdiction based on the location of a suspect, a victim, or b...