The Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes Program (Cybercrimes Enforcement Program) supports efforts by States, Indian Tribes, and units of local government to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals with a focus on adult and young adult cybercrime victims.

Cybercrimes

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against individuals are defined as criminal offenses that involve the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear to, or intimidate an individual, or without consent distribute intimate images of an adult, except that use of a computer need not be an element of the offense.

(See 34 U.S.C.

§ 30107(a)(2)).

Cybercrimes against individuals do not include the use of a computer to cause harm to a commercial entity, government agency or nonnatural person.

Note:
The term computer includes a computer network and an interactive electronic device.