New technology helps catch child predators
March 10, 2007 07:46 AM
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Class is in session for your children, sure, but also for authorities trying to stop child predators on-line.

The experts say technology is changing crime.

What one can do with a computer is bound only by the imagination.

We've been following the efforts to keep up with technologically advanced crimes.

Stepping up the effort is the focus of this WAFF 48 Investigators Report. In July we told you about a new cyber crime fighting tool coming to town

In January we introduced you to that tool, an Alabama computer forensics lab here in Huntsville.

It's one of three labs across the state and Alabama is one of only two states in the country to implement such a program.

Two weeks ago, we told you about a Vernon man, arrested on 149 counts of child porn. He was busted by the ACFL, a group set to expand by building a national computer forensics institute about a hundred miles away in Hoover Alabama.

Thousands of investigators from across the world will converge on that institute, training how to combat all types of cyber crime, from homicide, to identity theft, to kiddie porn.

Center directors say it'll be many months before that institute opens, but in the meantime, interim training courses will be underway in temporary facilities.