Advocacy
SOSA is committed to advocating for better and broader safety legislation, and to aiding child abuse prevention initiatives.
The casework behind that advocacy is the same casework behind our operations and our trainings — cases run with ICAC task forces, built to the standard required for prosecution.
Our advocacy is informed by real cases. Every operation SOSA runs is conducted in direct partnership with an ICAC task force, built to the standard required by the prosecutors who will try the case. How we advise lawmakers and platforms is derived directly from case evidence.
Our founder is a law enforcement consultant and subject matter expert who is present for every operation, testifies in court under direct and cross examination, and presents at ICAC conferences and departments across the country.
Grooming tactics evolve faster than most detection systems keep up with. We train Trust & Safety teams using real cases, identifying where grooming starts and pointing to signals more subtle than what those systems have been trained to catch.
Passed
SOSA helped pass a law criminalizing the online grooming of a minor. Child safety transcends party lines: the bill had bipartisan support and passed with zero “no” votes.
In progress
Working with legislators on bills that protect kids and resource ICAC teams, and on making SOSA's training available to the departments that investigate these cases.
More effective legislation provides legal protections to every single kid in a state — something identifying perpetrators one by one cannot do.
We are glad to speak to lawmakers, staffers, regulators, and Trust & Safety teams about what we see in our cases.
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