You know the old saying about the more you know… These are all the related/helpful websites I’ve come across during my research on internet sting operations:
Advocate Websites:
- Florida Action Committee – A website dedicated to facts versus myths of sex offenders and reforming the SO registry. Goes beyond Florida with news content. Great advocate website in seeking reform in the draconian justice system.
- Florida Sex Sting Blog – Nice Blog by lawyer Peter D. Aiken. Mostly about sting operations going down in Florida. The main website with blog has gone away but you can scroll to the bottom of Peter’s website for some limited older blog posts.
- Florida Scandal – A blog on the truth about internet sting entrapment. An older blog that hasn’t been updated in a few years (2014). It does have a few good links (the ones that work) to other resources. This site is one of the best, if not THE best for information/links on sting operations.
- Center for Sex Offender Management – A government run organization with lots of details and information on sex offender management. Looks like the Trump team took this offline in 2025 for some reasons.
- CSOM Fact Sheet: What You Need to Know About Sex Offenders.
- ICAC Arrests (Florida) – The original website (www.icacarrests.com) is no longer available. There was a lots of good information on ICAC stings however the website sat idle for many years and wasn’t updated since 2014. The site expired and went offline around Aug 2018. You maybe able to use the Wayback archive to obtain some information.
- Deposition Questions – Definitive questions that a defense attorney needs to get answers to during a pre-trial deposition or witness examination at trial. From ICAC Arrest website.
- National Association for Rational Sex Offender Laws (NARSOL) – A website dedicated the current news, laws, and policy surrounding Sex Offender laws affection millions in the USA.
- Tales from the Registry – Personal stories by people who have been harmed by oppressive sex offender registries.
- Alliance for constitutional sex offense laws (ASOL) – An up to date site with news and details on related sex offense laws, offenders and related.
- Once Fallen – A website of resources, research and advocacy. Written by someone whom landed on the registry.
- Stop police internet sex stings petition – Website to petition congress to stop the stings. If nothing else it is a good website where other people post what happen to them or someone they know. Another site that appears down in 2025.
- Voice for the Defense – Great website out of Texas which publishes a monthly magazine with great articles from a defense lawyer perspective. The Sept 2018 issue had an article on Sex Offender Registry as well as an article on child sexual abuse cases.
- The Lady Justice Myth – A great blog (2018-2019) on Washington State’s Net Nanny sting operation and putting another 20 year old in prison. The follow-on website, with forum is: CAPS This is Citizens Against Proactive Stings.
Petition 2 Congress Websites:
- Stop Police Internet Sex Stings – Created 8-Nov-2014 with 380 messages and 205 posts. Original petition on this subject and post are current and active. Many are sympathizers also contributing their stories. Site unavailable in 2025.
- Stop Internet Sex Stings – Created 24-May-2015 with 24 messages and 8 posts. Created by Tyler Beckstrom from Colorado whom was caught in a 2006 sting operation. No current activity. Site unavailable in 2025.
- End Funding for Internet Sex Stings – Created 8-Jul-2015 with 12 messages and 4 posts. No current activity. Site unavailable in 2025.
- Police Entrapment Internet Sexual Stings – Created 17-Dec-2015 with 4 messages and 3 posts. Latest petition with no current activity. Site unavailable in 2025.
- Defund Police Proactive Sex Stings – Created July 2020 on Change.org in order to gather signatures to stop this form of police abuse. Now has over 1095 signatures.
Law Enforcement Websites (ICAC, DOJ):
- ICAC Task Force Established (the law) – This law was established in the 2007 -2008 time frame. Check out this page on the law to see who sponsored and signed off on this bill.
- ICAC Program Details – From the Department of Justice we have Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program details. This includes how much Federal Funding goes into this program per year ($27 Million from 2014-2017).
- In 2016 more than 9,300 arrest were made. It is unknown how many in sting operations but my suspicion is perhaps 20-30% of their efforts.
- ICAC Task Force Program – The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) main website.
- MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING – Expectations of ICAC Task Force by the Department of Justice which grants money for these programs (i.e. rules of operation). This is set forth by the OJJDP and ICAC Task Forces.
- ICAC Standards October 2008 – The original standard after a law was enacted to establish the ICAC Task Force. (Note: Unknown origin, last sections maybe fake.)
- ICAC Standards December 2012 – Official and early version of the ICAC Standards before all edits and dilution. (Note: Unknown origin, last sections maybe fake.)
- ICAC Standards October 2014 – Discovered as a part of a Benton County Commissioners meeting. (100% verified)
- ICAC Operational Standards Sept 2017 – Found attached to Lacey Meeting in 2018. Changes Noted: Section 7.3 removed (from 2014 to 2017 document) on compiling and submitting details on cases submitted for prosecution. (100% verified)
- ICAC Operational Standards Oct 2018 – Very similar to 2017 version. Minor cleanup done to make more readable. Here is a link to an official version on a Washington State County website.
- ICAC Standards – Standards of ICAC Program, unknown date.
- ICAC Standards (Vermont) – ICAC Standards from Vermont in 2015.
- ICAC Case Law – This is a review of ICAC CASE LAW updated in 2019 out of Broward County, Florida. This may have been the reason for many of the elements of the ICAC Standards.
- ICAC Training Guide – Training Guide from 2008 (20 slides).
- Review of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program – 2010 – 2011 Review. A bit old but notes 11k arrests. Likely all “proactive” operations are sting related. Broken down by State/local Police departments.
- OJJDP ICAC Program – The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program. This Department of Justice page talks about the program and funding.
- OJJDP ICAC FY2016 Distribution – Where the OJJDP funding when in 2016 for the ICAC programs. Find your state to see how much money they are getting. The link is not working in 2025. They may have changed the location of these.
- OJJDP ICAC FY2017 Distributions – Same as above for 2017. Roughly $22M distributed, some of which will/did end up funding Sting operations. The link is not working in 2025. They may have changed the location of these.
Operation Net Nanny (WA State):
- ICAC Interagency Agreements:
- Interagency Agreement I – Between Vancouver Police Department and Washington State ICAC Task Force.
- Interagency Agreement II (Link2) – Between Thurston County Sherriff’s Office and Washington State ICAC Task Force.
- Interagency Agreement III – Between Benton County Sherriff Office and Washington State ICAC Task Force.
- Interagency Agreement IV – Between Olympia Police Department and Washington State ICAC Task Force. The 2019 version also includes a copy of the ICAC Operational and Investigative standards.
- Interagency Agreement V – Between the City of Bellevue and WA ICAC Task Force acting through the city of Seattle PD. Signed in 2019.
- ICAC Training & Technical Assistance Program (2015) – Redacted Training from 2015 Bellevue,WA.
- ICAC Net Nanny Training Presentation 2019 – Operation Net-Nanny: A Collaborative Attack on Child Sex Trafficking 82 page slide deck (94Mbytes) from August 2019. This is the training from the 31st annual Crimes Against Children Conference.
- The Investigator’s Guide to Interviewing Suspects Seeking to Exploit Children– Similar to the above training material. This is a 73 page slide deck (17Mbytes) from August 2019. It is about Unlocking the Truth (interrogation methods) from those they arrest during their proactive Net Nanny sting operations.
- IAD Standard Operating Procedures Manual 2017 – Chapter 7 is the MECTF operational procedures for the WSP. Much of this follows the ICAC Standards. This helps to show MECTF must follow ICAC guidelines since they wrote it into their own Standard Operating Procedures. Partially redacted. Here is a link to only CHAPTER 7 of the IAD Manual included with a Motion to Dismiss.
- Operation Net Nanny FACTSHEET (v1.94) – The basics of the Net Nanny sting operation along with all of the questionable tactics and conflicts of interest being made (Updated Nov 2023). The operation is abuse of power pure and simple.
- Operation Net Nanny CASES and LAWS – Various Net Nanny cases won and lost which show the extent the operation will go to convict individuals. Also list out violations made to the Operating Procedures.