National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private and nonprofit organization. United States Congress established the organization in mid-June 1984. The chairperson of this organization is the child safety advocate Patty Wetterling, the mother of Jacob Wetterling, an eleven-year-old-boy who was murdered in Minnesota in October 1989. The NCMEC handle cases of missing or exploited children between when they're babies and young adulthood through age 20.
The Center not only advocates for finding missing children, teenagers or young adults, it helps identify the dead.
The CyberTipline
The NCMEC operates the CyberTipline. The CyberTipline was established by the United States Congress for processing reports of child exploitation (this includes online enticement, child pornography and inappropriate contact with children). The NCMEC reviews the reports and shares them with appropriate law enforcement agencies or Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. Along with the information from the reporting party, NCMEC also adds geolocation information (when appropriate) and cross-references identifying information, like email addresses, usernames and IP addresses with the existing CyberTipline reports.