National Child Victim Identification System

Overview
The National Child Victim Identification System (NCVIS), owned by the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), is an application that assists Federal, State, local, and international law enforcement agencies during investigations of child sexual exploitation crimes, specifically those involving images of child exploitation. NCVIS maintains a repository of electronic images of child exploitation submitted by law enforcement agencies. These images may capture the faces or other identifying features of the victims of these crimes and the violators.

The primary purpose of NCVIS is to provide a means of connecting law enforcement personnel seeking to identify child victims in an image with law enforcement personnel who have already identified the victim in the image. A secondary purpose is to identify identical or substantially similar images to assist in identifying the child victims and to promote coordination among law enforcement agencies working on related investigations. Other than the images themselves, NCVIS does not maintain the identities of the child victims or violators.