NCMEC: Sen. Ossoff’s Bipartisan Law Forcing Big Tech to Report Child Predators

According to new NCMEC data, big tech platforms submitted 105,877 reports of child sex trafficking in 2025 - a more than 1,100% increase from before Sen. Ossoff's law went into effect

Washington, D.C. - New data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) found U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff's bipartisan law is forcing big tech companies to report child predators.

Two years ago this month, Sen. Ossoff's bipartisan REPORT Act became law, which - for the first time - requires big tech companies to report crimes involving enticement of children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

According to NCMEC's latest 2025 report, Sen. Ossoff's bipartisan law is forcing big tech companies to report online predators.

According to NCMEC, "In 2023, one year before the REPORT Act was enacted, online platforms submitted 8,480 CyberTipline reports relating to child sex trafficking. In 2025, the first full year after implementation, online platforms submitted 105,877 reports - a more than 1,100% increase that underscores the impact of expanded reporting requirements."

"I know that for every parent in Georgia, the worst nightmare is your child being trafficked and approached by a predator online, and it happens every single day across the country," Sen. Ossoff said. "That's why I worked to bring Republicans and Democrats together to pass the REPORT Act into law so that social media and tech companies are required to report evidence of sexual enticement or trafficking of children online to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children"

Sen. Ossoff's bipartisan law, which he introduced alongside Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), also requires evidence to be preserved for a longer period, giving law enforcement more time to investigate and prosecute crimes, and increases fines for companies that knowingly and willfully fail to report child sex abuse material on their site.

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect children online.

Last month, Sen. Ossoff launched inquiries with Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, and X over tech companies' advertisement and distribution of "nudifying" apps that allow users to swiftly create explicit images of children and teenagers.

In December, the U.S. Senate passed Sens. Ossoff and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)'s bipartisan Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025 to strengthen coordination between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prevent child trafficking and protect kids.

In July 2025, Sen. Ossoff cosponsored the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which would impose new requirements on digital platforms to protect children from being targeted online with harmful content.

In March 2025, Sen. Ossoff cosponsored the bipartisan Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) to limit use of children's information for individually targeted advertising.

In 2023, Sens. Ossoff and Grassley's bipartisanPreventing Child Sex Abuse Act of 2023 was signed into law, which strengthened Federal protections against the sexual abuse of children, including online exploitation.

Click here to read more from NCMEC on how on Sen. Ossoff's bipartisan law is helping protect kids from trafficking.

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