§40941 Disposition records automation and transmittal improvement grants

Summary

The Attorney General must give money to each State so state courts can better automate and send criminal history records to Federal and State databases. The grants pay to improve records that show how cases ended (including misdemeanor domestic violence convictions), court orders, and mental health findings or commitments. The work must follow each State’s plan for linking and making criminal records usable. Up to 5 percent of the grant money may be held back for Indian tribal governments to use in tribal courts. To get a grant, a State must certify it has a relief-from-disabilities program under section 40915. The law authorizes these amounts for the Attorney General to run the program: $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2009, $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2012, and $62,500,000 for fiscal year 2013.