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§12442 Purpose areas

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Comprehensive Acts › Chapter CHAPTER 121— - VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part Part I— - Privacy Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Stalking › § 12442

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Grants can be used to protect victims' identifying information. They may pay to create rules and procedures to stop releasing identifying details, to update databases and alert systems so data isn't shared or leaked, to build one private opt‑out that keeps a victim's info out of many systems, and to support safe uses of technology, stop tech abuses like electronic or GPS stalking, or train law enforcement on high‑tech crimes related to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §12442

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Grants made under this part may be used—
(1)to develop or improve protocols, procedures, and policies for the purpose of preventing the release of personally identifying information of victims (such as developing alternative identifiers);
(2)to defray the costs of modifying or improving existing databases, registries, and victim notification systems to ensure that personally identifying information of victims is protected from release, unauthorized information sharing and disclosure;
(3)to develop confidential opt out systems that will enable victims of violence to make a single request to keep personally identifying information out of multiple databases, victim notification systems, and registries; or
(4)to develop safe uses of technology (such as notice requirements regarding electronic surveillance by government entities), to protect against abuses of technology (such as electronic or GPS stalking), or providing training for law enforcement on high tech electronic crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14043b–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 12442

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73