2510: Immigration/Customs Enforcement

Friday, June 25, 2004
11:00am – 12:30pm
Presenter: Alexis Slebodnick

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

An overview of the U.S. Investigations and Criminal Enforcement (ICE) Cyber Crimes Center, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsibilities and mission, focusing on current Child Exploitation Unit initiatives. This presentation will highlight current investigations, child sex tourism and the National Child Victim Identification System (NCVIS). The NCVIS is a nationwide system, housed at ICE, used to identify images of known victims and as an analytical tool to determine trends in the trade of child pornography.

PRESENTER BIO

Ms. Alexis Slebodnick is a Senior Intelligence Analyst with the ICE Cyber Crime Center, Child Exploitation Unit (CEU). She is the Program Manager for Operation Peer Pursuit, an ICE peer-to-peer initiative and has been involved in the development of the NCVIS since its inception. As the senior analyst in the CEU, Ms. Slebodnick has been an integral part of major investigations such as Operation Blue Orchid, a joint investigation with the Moscow City Police into the international distribution of child pornography videos facilitated by the Internet. She is a requested speaker and routinely teaches Internet investigations courses at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Ms. Slebodnick has been an intelligence analyst for twenty years, working previously at the FBI and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In March 2004, a chapter was written about her fighting child pornography on the Internet the book “Cool Careers for Girls in Cybersecurity and National Safety”. She received her B.S. in Business from Radford University and her M.A. in International Transactions form George Mason University.

Ms. Slebodnick is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and a lifetime member of the Society of Certified Criminal Analysts (SCCA).

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