PROTECT, a national pro-child and anti-crime organization is locating its national headquarters in Knoxville.  Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones was pleased to be at a joint press conference Wednesday morning where the announcement was made at Ashley Nicole Playground in Caswell Park. 

The National Association to Protect Children, or PROTECT, is a nonpartisan, pro-child, anti-crime membership association founded in 2002 and dedicated exclusively to the issue of child protection.

PROTECT was instrumental in Congress recently passing a law that requires the Attorney General to submit to Congress a National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Intervention.

Actor David Keith	PROTECT Executive Director Grier Weeks, Mayor Bill Haslam, and Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV.	Knox County Sheriff Jimmy "J.J." Jones and Actor David Keith

Protect has members in all 50 states, and does most of its work in the state legislatures, from New York to California and Illinois to Arkansas.