Cybercrimes—New FBI Command Center

A new FBI Cybercrime Command Center will be built in Baton Rouge.^[1] Expected to begin operations in the fall, the $300,000 Baton Rouge-based center will “investigate criminals, including identity thieves, child pornographers, hackers, and fraud operators.”^[2]

Cybercrime is the third-highest priority for the FBI, ranking above public corruption and just below terrorism and foreign counterintelligence.^[3] Over the past few years, the FBI’s offices in the Baton Rouge region have quadrupled in size, and the Bureau has expressed a need for more investigators.^[4]

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[1] FBI Center to Concentrate on Computer Crimes, Associated Press (via New Orleans Times Picayune), Jan. 16,2006.
[2] Id.
[3] Id.
[4] Id.