This article might help to understand what these amazing dogs do. And why the were brought in.
Wisc gets electronics-sniffing dog to help in child predator investigations
Digital Detection Dog
Posted: Wed 8:13 AM, Oct 31, 2018
Barron teenager Jayme Closs.
"Kozak, like most electronic detection canines, is on a food-reward diet, which means he is only fed when he finds an electronic device. This requires him to either be trained or deployed on an operation every day, in order to stay fed and keep his skills up to snuff," says the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Kozak is named after kidnapping survivor Alicia Kozakiewicz. At age 13, she was abducted by an online predator and tortured in his basement.
In 2016, Wisconsin lawmakers passed Alicia's Law to cut the time and process it takes to find the location of suspected internet predators.
"I am absolutely overjoyed that K9 Kozak, the new Wisconsin ICAC Canine Officer, has been named after me!" said Alicia Kozakiewicz. "What I experienced was truly heinous, but so much good has come from it, such as, Alicia's Law, which I worked alongside the group, Protect, to pass in Wisconsin. How amazing that Alicia's Law has gone on to fund Kozak's addition to this incredible team of heroes. Go get 'em, Kozak!"
K9 Kozak was trained at the same center as K9 Bear. Bear helped in the Jared Fogle case and raids on a home of former gymnastics coach Marvin Sharp.
The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force has received 915 tips in the first half of 2018. They've inspected more than 315,000 gigabytes of data on hard drives and other storage devices.
In 2017, Target 2 reported on the work of electronics-sniffing dogs.
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