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§50502 Blue Alert communications network

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle V— - Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Personnel › Chapter CHAPTER 505— - NATIONAL BLUE ALERT › § 50502

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must create a national Blue Alert communications network inside the Department of Justice. The network will send Blue Alerts by starting, helping, and promoting Blue Alert plans in cooperation with States, local governments, law enforcement agencies, and other appropriate groups.

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Title 34, §50502

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The Attorney General shall establish a national Blue Alert communications network within the Department of Justice to issue Blue Alerts through the initiation, facilitation, and promotion of Blue Alert plans, in coordination with States, units of local government, law enforcement agencies, and other appropriate entities.

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Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14165a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 50502

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73