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- § 41501. Financial institutions fraud task forces
- § 41502. Morgan P. Hardiman Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center
- § 41503. Fugitive Apprehension Task Forces
- § 41504. Project Safe Neighborhoods
- § 41505. Organized retail theft database
- § 41506. United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force
- § 41507. National Gang Intelligence Center
- § 41508. Grants to States for threat assessment databases
§ 41501. Financial institutions fraud task forces
(a) Establishment
(b) Supervision
(c) Senior interagency group
(1) Establishment
(2) Membership
The senior interagency group shall be chaired by the Special Counsel and shall include senior officials from—
(A) the Department of Justice, including representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys, and other relevant entities;
(B) the Department of the Treasury;
(C) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
(D) the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency;
(E) the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and
(F) the National Credit Union Administration.
(3) Duties
(Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2539, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4884; Pub. L. 111–203, title III, § 359(1), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1548.)
§ 41502. Morgan P. Hardiman Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center
(a) Establishment
(b) Purpose
(c) Duties of the CASMIRCThe CASMIRC shall perform such duties as the Attorney General determines appropriate to carry out the purposes of the CASMIRC, including—
(1) identifying, developing, researching, acquiring, and refining multidisciplinary information and specialities to provide for the most current expertise available to advance investigative knowledge and practices used in child abduction, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicide, and serial murder investigations;
(2) providing advice and coordinating the application of current and emerging technical, forensic, and other Federal assistance to Federal, State, and local authorities in child abduction, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicide, and serial murder investigations;
(3) providing investigative support, research findings, and violent crime analysis to Federal, State, and local authorities in child abduction, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicide, and serial murder investigations;
(4) providing, if requested by a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency, on site consultation and advice in child abduction, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicide and serial murder investigations;
(5) coordinating the application of resources of pertinent Federal law enforcement agencies, and other Federal entities including, but not limited to, the United States Customs Service, the Secret Service, the Postal Inspection Service, and the United States Marshals Service, as appropriate, and with the concurrence of the agency head to support Federal, State, and local law enforcement involved in child abduction, mysterious disappearance of a child, child homicide, and serial murder investigations;
(6) conducting ongoing research related to child abductions, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicides, and serial murder, including identification and investigative application of current and emerging technologies, identification of investigative searching technologies and methods for physically locating abducted children, investigative use of offender behavioral assessment and analysis concepts, gathering statistics and information necessary for case identification, trend analysis, and case linkages to advance the investigative effectiveness of outstanding abducted children cases, develop investigative systems to identify and track serious serial offenders that repeatedly victimize children for comparison to unsolved cases, and other investigative research pertinent to child abduction, mysterious disappearance of a child, child homicide, and serial murder covered in this section;
(7) working under the NCAVC in coordination with the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice to provide appropriate training to Federal, State, and local law enforcement in matters regarding child abductions, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicides; and
(8) establishing a centralized repository based upon case data reflecting child abductions, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicides and serial murder submitted by State and local agencies, and an automated system for the efficient collection, retrieval, analysis, and reporting of information regarding CASMIRC investigative resources, research, and requests for and provision of investigative support services.
(d) Appointment of personnel to the CASMIRC
(1) Selection of members of the CASMIRC and participating State and local law enforcement personnel
(2) Status
(3) Training
(e) Report to CongressOne year after the establishment of the CASMIRC, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report, which shall include—
(1) a description of the goals and activities of the CASMIRC; and
(2) information regarding—
(A) the number and qualifications of the members appointed to the CASMIRC;
(B) the provision of equipment, administrative support, and office space for the CASMIRC; and
(C) the projected resource needs for the CASMIRC.
(f) Authorization of appropriations
(Pub. L. 105–314, title VII, § 703(a)–(f), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2987–2989.)
§ 41503. Fugitive Apprehension Task Forces
(a) In general
(b) Authorization of appropriations
(c) Other existing applicable law
(Pub. L. 106–544, § 6, Dec. 19, 2000, 114 Stat. 2718; Pub. L. 110–177, title V, § 507, Jan. 7, 2008, 121 Stat. 2543.)
§ 41504. Project Safe Neighborhoods
(a) In general
(b) Authorization for hiring 94 additional Assistant United States Attorneys
(Pub. L. 107–273, div. A, title I, § 104, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1766.)
§ 41505. Organized retail theft database
(a) National data
(1) The Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in consultation with the retail community, shall establish a task force to combat organized retail theft and provide expertise to the retail community for the establishment of a national database or clearinghouse housed and maintained in the private sector to track and identify where organized retail theft type crimes are being committed in the United Sates.1
1 So in original. Probably should be “States”.
The national database shall allow Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials as well as authorized retail companies (and authorized associated retail databases) to transmit information into the database electronically and to review information that has been submitted electronically.(2) The Attorney General shall make available funds to provide for the ongoing administrative and technological costs to federal law enforcement agencies participating in the database project.
(3) The Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Office of Justice Programs may make grants to help provide for the administrative and technological costs to State and local law enforcement agencies participating in the data base 2
2 So in original. Probably should be “database”.
project.(b) Authorization of appropriations
(c) Definition of organized retail theft
For purposes of this section, “organized retail theft” means—
(1) the violation of a State prohibition on retail merchandise theft or shoplifting, if the violation consists of the theft of quantities of items that would not normally be purchased for personal use or consumption and for the purpose of reselling the items or for reentering the items into commerce;
(2) the receipt, possession, concealment, bartering, sale, transport, or disposal of any property that is know 3
3 So in original. Probably should be “known”.
or should be known to have been taken in violation of paragraph (1); or(3) the coordination, organization, or recruitment of persons to undertake the conduct described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1105, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3092; Pub. L. 109–271, § 8(a), Aug. 12, 2006, 120 Stat. 766.)
§ 41506. United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force
(a) Task Force
(1) The Attorney General shall establish the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force in Laredo, Texas, to combat drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico and to provide expertise to the law enforcement and homeland security agencies along the border between the United States and Mexico. The Task Force shall include personnel from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, other Federal agencies (as appropriate), the Texas Department of Public Safety, and local law enforcement agencies.
(2) The Attorney General shall make available funds to provide for the ongoing administrative and technological costs to Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies participating in the Task Force.
(b) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2009, for—
(1) the establishment and operation of the United States-Mexico Border Violence Task Force; and
(2) the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of individuals engaged in drug and firearms trafficking, violence, and kidnapping along the border between the United States and Mexico.
(Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1106, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3093.)
§ 41507. National Gang Intelligence Center
(a) Establishment
The Attorney General shall establish a National Gang Intelligence Center and gang information database to be housed at and administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to collect, analyze, and disseminate gang activity information from—
(1) the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
(2) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives;
(3) the Drug Enforcement Administration;
(4) the Bureau of Prisons;
(5) the United States Marshals Service;
(6) the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security;
(7) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
(8) the Office of Justice Services of the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
(9) tribal, State, and local law enforcement;
(10) Federal, tribal, State, and local prosecutors;
(11) Federal, tribal, State, and local probation and parole offices;
(12) Federal, tribal, State, and local prisons and jails; and
(13) any other entity as appropriate.
(b) Information
The Center established under subsection (a) shall make available the information referred to in subsection (a) to—
(1) Federal, tribal, State, and local law enforcement agencies;
(2) Federal, tribal, State, and local corrections agencies and penal institutions;
(3) Federal, tribal, State, and local prosecutorial agencies; and
(4) any other entity as appropriate.
(c) Annual report
(d) Authorization of appropriations
(Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1107, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3093; Pub. L. 111–211, title II, § 251(a), July 29, 2010, 124 Stat. 2297.)
§ 41508. Grants to States for threat assessment databases
(a) In general
(b) Database
For purposes of subsection (a), a threat assessment database is a database through which a State can—
(1) analyze trends and patterns in domestic terrorism and crime;
(2) project the probabilities that specific acts of domestic terrorism or crime will occur; and
(3) develop measures and procedures that can effectively reduce the probabilities that those acts will occur.
(c) Core elements
(d) Authorization of appropriations
(Pub. L. 110–177, title III, § 303, Jan. 7, 2008, 121 Stat. 2540.)