Ms Aftab, a cyberspace lawyer, and the author of the recently released book, The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace, McGraw-Hill 2000, is a free speech advocate who seeks to empower parents, not the censors. She was appointed by UNESCO to chair its U.S. Internet safety effort, Innocence in Danger. In recognition of her work online with children, Ms Aftab was selected as a charter member of The Children's Television Workshop’s Advisory Board, as well as appointed to The National Urban League’s Technology Advisory Committee. Ms Aftab also represents the children’s Internet industry in legal compliance matters.

Oldog is a veteran of both the army and law enforcement. After 20 years in the army he retired as a Lt Colonel. Oldog then worked as a deputy coroner and then became a detective for the police, a position he held for 12 years. He joined Wiredpatrol in December 2000 and has been involved with CLEO since its inception.

Private Investigator and social justice advocate, Melissa J Straub is a highly experienced and credentialed professional within the investigative and consulting arena since 1993 and is a licensed Private Detective in the State of New Jersey. In addition, Melissa holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Pre Law and Master's Degree in Counseling and a New Jersey State School Counselors certification, enabling a deeper understanding of current social justice and child advocacy issues. Armed with advanced technical certifications, she is able to provide a technical "spin" to a vast array of investigative scenarios. Read Melissa's full bio here.


Law Enforcement Operations (LEO)

The Law Enforcement operations team is led by Rigel, a detective who takes his job very seriously.  To date his team has helped hundreds of victims and their work has led to the return of seven missing kids. For one case the team received congratulations on the floor of congress.   The LEO team assists victims of Cyber-stalking, Email Harassment and Internet Relay Chat harassment. The LEO team also assists police departments by providing assistance with Internet Investigation Information and techniques of Investigation. The LEO team has further assisted victims with missing children, Internet use safety techniques, Identifying and confirming the identification of people and general self help

Child Pornography (KP)

Child pornography reporting team, is still leading the way in site reporting and shutting down the sites.  The KP team searches the depths and dark recesses of the Internet for sites which promote pedophilia, or which link to those that do.  The team reviews sites that have been turned in as child porn sites, evaluates them and attempts to use their tracking and tracing skills to find out who published the sites.  The valid child porn sites are turned into the U.S. Customs and FBI offices or appropriate international agency for processing.  They also look for Kporn traffickers via peer-to-peer software, such as Scour and Gnutella.  Not only does this team search for Kporn sites, they also actively seek out the distributors and lead law enforcement to their door.