“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

Matthew 25:40

CEPPRA

Mandate

A dedicated authority, not another working group.

When the country decided aviation security and financial crime required real institutions, it built TSA and FinCEN — with mandates, funding, and teeth. Child exploitation still runs on task forces, grants, and goodwill. CEPPRA is the case for matching the threat with an authority.

Six functions of the mandate

  1. Real-time multi-agency cooperation

    Federal, state, tribal, and local partners working together in real time — ending the handoffs that let cases die between desks.

  2. Dedicated special teams

    Standing special teams for investigation and prosecution support — focused capacity, not ad hoc task forces that dissolve when funding ends.

  3. Prosecutorial coordination

    Standing coordination with DOJ, state attorneys general, and tribal authorities so charging decisions are not orphaned by venue games.

  4. Survivor-services and case-management standards

    Binding standards for care, placement, and long-term case management — not optional guidance.

  5. Platform compliance oversight

    Auditable compliance for reporting, preservation, and response — with consequences for knowing CSE hosting and failure to report.

  6. National registry and intelligence fusion

    A real-time national picture of offenders, victims, and open cases — shared across agencies that today cannot see each other.

  7. Interpol and international liaison

    Dedicated capacity for cross-border investigations, extradition support, and disruption of transnational networks.

Legislative demand

Demand What it means
Structure Establish CEPPRA to drive real-time multi-agency cooperation and dedicated special teams — with independent third-party oversight and accountability to fight corruption within the ranks — not a temporary task force or advisory board.
Funding No less than $1 billion in dedicated annual funding, ring-fenced from unrelated DOJ or DHS transfers.
Data sharing Real-time multi-agency data sharing across federal, state, tribal, and local partners.
Section 230 Remove immunity for platforms that knowingly host or fail to report child sexual exploitation material.
Age threshold Raise the commercial sexual activity and explicit-material production age threshold to 21 where it is currently legal at 16 or 18.
Foster-care protections Statutory trafficking protections and exit protocols for youth leaving foster care — closing the documented 48-hour risk window.
Penalties Harsher penalties for offenders, and no plea deals — covered child-exploitation offenses shall be fully prosecuted.
Survivor standard A binding federal survivor-care and case-management standard.

Congress already knows how to move fast.

When political will exists, authorities are stood up in months — not decades. The studies exist. The children cannot wait another cycle.

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