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Internet-Facilitated Sexual Offending

Date Published
July 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Literature Review, Issue Overview
Agencies
SMART-Sponsored

Commemorating National Missing Children’s Day

Commemorating National Missing Children’s Day

Etan Patz, six years old, was walking to school in New York City when he disappeared on the morning of May 25, 1979.  He never made it, and he wasn’t reported missing until he didn’t return home that evening.  After his mother alerted the police, more than 100 police officers and bloodhounds embarked on an intensive search for the missing boy.  But he was never...

TECHBeat, February 2019

Date Published
February 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material, Grants and Funding
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored

SMART Office Welcomes New Director

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katie Sullivan (left) swears in Kendel Ehrlich as the Director of the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking on March 16.

In March, the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking welcomed a new Director, Kendel Ehrlich. She previously served as the Deputy Director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. In that position, Kendel specialized in external communications combatting the opioid crisis with particular emphasis on ONDCP's High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas and Drug-Free Communities programs.

Prior to joining the...