Every child deserves to grow up safe.
Operation Light Shine brings law enforcement, communities, and supporters together to protect children and give investigators the resources to keep pace with a growing challenge.
We stand with the people protecting children.
Operation Light Shine equips law enforcement with technology, training, and operational support. We bring agencies together, strengthen investigations, and connect communities and supporters to the work. These crimes grow more complex every year, and we make sure the people on the front lines have what they need to keep up.
The threat is growing. Resources aren’t keeping pace.
Investigators know where to look. They need the resources to get there.
What support makes possible.
Every number here is a child protected, a family spared further harm, and a community made safer.
More than funding. Full support.
Support that reaches the front lines
Your support goes directly into communities, helping law enforcement access the technology, personnel, training, and resources needed to strengthen investigations and protect children.
Task force locations and active operations — select a pin to learn more.
Collaboration makes us stronger.
Protecting children takes all of us. OLS works alongside law enforcement to strengthen collaboration, expand resources, and support the work agencies are already doing. Whether through an INTERCEPT Task Force or a direct partnership with an individual agency, we help connect people, technology, training, and resources where they can make the greatest impact. Because no single agency, organization, or community can do this work alone.
See the work up close.
Interviews, partnerships, and stories from the communities we serve.
What is child exploitation, and how does it happen?→
It's when an adult uses a child for sexual purposes or gain — and today it usually begins online rather than in person. It rarely looks like a stranger in a van. It looks like someone building trust inside a game, a chat, or a social app, often posing as a peer, then gradually moving things somewhere private. The manipulation is the engine, and it can unfold over weeks.
How safe is my child?→
Safer than fear suggests, and less safe than most parents assume. Exploitation doesn't require your child to go looking for anything — predators go where children already are, which means any platform that lets people talk to each other. What moves the odds isn't which app they use. It's whether an adult is paying attention.
How can I protect my child?→
Presence, more than restriction. Know what they enjoy and who they talk to, keep the conversation going in ordinary moments, teach them to think critically rather than memorise a list of dangers, set boundaries that stay consistent, and make sure they know exactly where to go if something goes wrong. That's our W.A.T.C.H. framework — the free Parent Playbook walks through it age by age.
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Where does my money actually go?→
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A Guardian stands with the people protecting children. Your support sustains the technology, training, and resources law enforcement relies on. Together, we make more of this work possible.
NOUN — a Guardian is an identity, not a donation tier. It means a community of people who believe protecting children takes all of us, and who choose to stand with those doing the work. Monthly support is how Guardians sustain it.