 J. Robert Flores
A longtime advocate for children, J. Robert Flores has led a distinguished
career in juvenile and criminal justice. Currently the Administrator
of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a
position he assumed in April 2002, Mr. Flores previously served
in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where
he worked on issues related to child exploitation and obscenity.
Mr. Flores is an experienced lawyer and former prosecutor with
expertise in Internet crime, child abuse and exploitation, and
juvenile justice issues. In his role as OJJDP Administrator, he
has spearheaded efforts to increase and improve Federal interagency
cooperation, serving as Vice Chairman of the Coordinating Council
on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. In keeping with
the President's management initiatives to make the Federal
government more efficient, Mr. Flores has initiated three pilot
programs to address youth gangs, reduce child prostitution, and
improve the juvenile justice system. Under his leadership, OJJDP
has expanded its efforts to respond to the online exploitation
of children and significantly increased the involvement of faith-based
and community organizations in its programming.
Before his OJJDP appointment, Mr. Flores was the Vice President
and Senior Counsel for the National Law Center for Children and
Families. From 1989 to 1997, Mr. Flores was Senior Trial Attorney
and Acting Deputy Chief in the Child Exploitation and Obscenity
Section, Criminal Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice.
During his tenure in the Criminal Division, he supervised several
national investigations, including the U.S. Customs Service's Operation
Long Arm, which targeted individuals in the United States who imported
child pornography from a foreign-based bulletin board service,
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Innocent Images
effort to halt distribution of child pornography images through
an Internet service provider. Mr. Flores prosecuted United States
v. Kimbrough, the first federal case involving computer child
pornography to go to trial. He successfully argued the appeal to
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
A devoted husband to his wife, Ingrid, and father to his three
children, Robert, Katherine, and Claire, Mr. Flores has dedicated
his professional life to our Nation's children. Before serving
in the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Flores was an Assistant
District Attorney in Manhattan, where he successfully prosecuted
numerous child sexual abuse cases. Mr. Flores regularly lectures
at conferences and seminars throughout the United States on child
abuse and exploitation, criminal procedure, criminal and constitutional
law, and investigative procedures and computer crime. He has also
served as a consultant to federal and state legislators and government
officials. In 1999, he was appointed to the Child Online Protection
Act Commission by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,
Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Flores earned his juris doctorate from Boston University
School of Law and a bachelor's degree in business administration
from Boston University School of Management.
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