Sec. 4. Angel Watch Center
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish within the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE)of the Department of Homeland Security a Center, to be known as the Angel Watch Center , to carry out the activities specified in subsection (d). The Center shall be headed by the Director of ICE, in collaboration with the Commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection
(CBP)and in consultation with the Attorney General. The Center shall consist of the following: The Director of ICE. The Commissioner of CBP. Individuals who are designated as analysts in ICE or CBP. Individuals who are designated as program managers in ICE or CBP. The Center shall carry out the following activities: Receive information on travel by child-sex offenders. Establish a system to maintain and archive all relevant information, including the response of destination countries to notifications under subsection
(e)where available, and decisions not to transmit notification abroad. Establish an annual review process to ensure that the Center is consistent in procedures to provide notification to destination countries or not to provide notification to destination countries, as appropriate. The United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender Targeting Office shall make available to the Center information on travel by child-sex offenders in a timely manner for purposes of carrying out the activities described in paragraph
(1)and (e). The Center may transmit notice of impending or current international travel of a child-sex offender to the country or countries of destination of the child-sex offender, including to the visa-issuing agent or agents in the United States of the country or countries. The notice under this paragraph may be transmitted through such means as determined appropriate by the Center, including through an ICE attaché. If the Center transmits notice under paragraph
(1)of impending international travel of a child-sex offender to the country or countries of destination of the child-sex offender, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in conjunction with any appropriate agency, shall make reasonable efforts to provide constructive notice through electronic or telephonic communication to the child-sex offender prior to the child-sex offender’s arrival in the country or countries. The requirement to provide constructive notice under clause
(i)shall not apply in the case of impending international travel of a child-sex offender to the country or countries of destination of the child-sex offender if such constructive notice would conflict with an existing investigation involving the child-sex offender. If the Center has reason to believe that to transmit notice under paragraph
(1)poses a risk to the life or well-being of the child-sex offender, the Center shall make reasonable efforts to provide constructive notice through electronic or telephonic communication to the child-sex offender of such risk. If the Center has reason to believe that a country of destination of the child-sex offender is highly likely to deny entry to the child-sex offender due to transmission of notice under paragraph (1), the Center shall make reasonable efforts to provide constructive notice through electronic or telephonic communication to the child-sex offender of such probable denial. The authority of paragraph
(1)shall terminate with respect to a child-sex offender beginning as of the close of the last day of the registration period of such child-sex offender under section 115 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 ( 42 U.S.C. 16915 ). The Center shall establish a mechanism to receive complaints from child-sex offenders affected by notifications of destination countries of such child-sex offenders under subsection (e). The Center shall seek to engage in ongoing consultations with— nongovernmental organizations, including faith-based organizations, that have experience and expertise in identifying and preventing child sex tourism and rescuing and rehabilitating minor victims of international sexual exploitation and trafficking; the governments of countries interested in cooperating in the creation of an international sex offender travel notification system or that are primary destination or source countries for international sex tourism; and Internet service and software providers regarding available and potential technology to facilitate the implementation of an international sex offender travel notification system, both in the United States and in other countries. The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State may provide technical assistance to foreign authorities in order to enable such authorities to participate more effectively in the notification program system established under this section.
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