Washington, March 9 -- Congresswoman Madeleine Dean issued the following press release:

U.S. Representatives Madeleine Dean (D-PA-04), Laurel Lee (R-FL-15), Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), and Brad Knott (R-NC-13) introduced the Safe Cloud Storage Act to help law enforcement agencies modernize how they securely store and process digital evidence related to child sexual exploitation investigations. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) are leading a companion bill in the Senate.

As the volume of digital evidence containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) continues to grow, law enforcement agencies are facing more challenges in storing, transferring, and analyzing this highly sensitive evidence. Many investigators are st...