Sergeant Byron Fassett

Dallas Police Dept., Child Exploitation Squad

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Sergeant Byron Fassett has been with the Dallas Police Department for 24 years. He served as the Sergeant over the Department's Family Violence Squad for three years before moving to the Child Exploitation Squad in 1990.  In his current position, Sergeant Fassett is responsible for supervising the Child Exploitation Squad which consists of 15 detectives. He has been designated as a Special Investigator for the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Texas and a Special Deputy for United States Marshall's Service.

Sergeant Fassett co-developed and wrote the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) grant for the Dallas Police Department and started the ICAC team in the department’s Child Exploitation Squad.  Sergeant Fassett started the High Risk Victims Team (HRV) within the Dallas Police Department.  Sergeant Fassett is one of the planners and organizers of the “Annual Crimes Against Children Conference” held in Dallas each year.  The conference, now in its 16^th year, has an attendance of over 2400 participants. 

He has instructed at the Annual Governor's Training Conference on Child Abuse, Southern Regional Children's Advocacy Center, The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), FBI Academy, and for various other agencies and conferences throughout the country and internationally.