Title 18Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73

§3155 Annual reports

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require chief pretrial officers in districts where pretrial services exist under section 3152(b), or chief probation officers in other districts, to send an annual report to the chief judge and give case files, statistics, and other pretrial information to the Director. The Director must include a report on the previous year’s pretrial services in the Director’s annual report to the Judicial Conference under section 604 of title 28.

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Title 18, §3155

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Each chief pretrial services officer in districts in which pretrial services are established under section 3152(b) of this title, and each chief probation officer in all other districts, shall prepare an annual report to the chief judge of the district court concerning the administration and operation of pretrial services and shall ensure that case file, statistical, and other information concerning the work of pretrial services is provided to the Director. The Director shall be required to include in the Director’s annual report to the Judicial Conference under section 604 of title 28 a report on the administration and operation of the pretrial services for the previous year.

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2014—Pub. L. 113–235, in first sentence, struck out “and the Director” after “chief judge of the district court” and inserted at end “and shall ensure that case file, statistical, and other information concerning the work of pretrial services is provided to the Director”. 1982—Pub. L. 97–267 substituted provisions that each pretrial services officer or chief probation officer shall prepare an annual report to the chief judge of the district court and to the Director concerning the administration and operation of pretrial services and that the Director must include in the Director’s annual report to the Judicial Conference a report on the administration and operation of the pretrial services for the previous year for provisions relating to the Director’s annual report to Congress, the contents of the Director’s fourth annual report, and that on or before the expiration of the forty-eighth-month period following July 1, 1975, the Director would file a comprehensive report with Congress concerning the administration and operation of the

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made by the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, including his views and recommendations with respect thereto.

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18 U.S.C. § 3155

Title 18Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73