---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20986"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20986"
heading: "Children’s safety online awareness campaigns"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20986"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 209 — Child Protection and Safety"
  - "Subchapter III — Grants and Other Provisions"
---

# §20986. Children’s safety online awareness campaigns

- (a) **Awareness campaign for children’s safety online—**
  - (1) **In general—** The Attorney General, in consultation with the National [Center](/usc/34/21502.md?p=1) for Missing and Exploited Children, is authorized to develop and carry out a public awareness campaign to demonstrate, explain, and encourage children, parents, and community leaders to better protect children when such children are on the Internet.
  - (2) **Required components—** The public awareness campaign described under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall include components that compliment[^1] and reinforce the campaign message in a variety of media, including the Internet, television, radio, and billboards.
- (b) **Awareness campaign regarding the accessibility and utilization of sex offender registries—** The Attorney General, in consultation with the National [Center](/usc/34/21502.md?p=1) for Missing and Exploited Children, is authorized to develop and carry out a public awareness campaign to demonstrate, explain, and encourage parents and community leaders to better access and utilize the Federal and [State](/usc/34/21701.md?p=3) [sex offender](/usc/34/21502.md?p=9) registries.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as are necessary for fiscal years 2007 through 2011.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “complement”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title VI, § 629, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 640.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16986 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.