The Identity Theft Council

Mission Statement

The Identity Theft Council is founded on a simple premise - that every community, no matter how small, has resources that can be harnessed to combat identity theft: to help victims recover from the crime, to ease the burden on law enforcement, and to educate users about the many options they have to avoid the crime.

Our mission is to find more effective ways to fight identity theft at a local level, and we hope to achieve this in a number of ways:

• By providing victims of identity theft with free access to local experts and trained counselors who are volunteering their time to help victims recover from identity theft.

• By working with local credit unions and banks to encourage their employees to become trained volunteer identity theft counselors.

• By partnering with law enforcement, providing them with free training and other resources, so they can provide a more positive response to victims.

• By working with a broad network of local partners, including the financial community, law enforcement, local government, local businesses, and schools, to spread the "prevention through education" message to the broader community.

• By creating Junior Identity Theft Councils in schools across the country so that students can learn about the risks early, take the prevention message into their community, and learn valuable life and job skills.