§50701 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

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The Attorney General, through the FBI Director, must set up the Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data Collection Program not later than 1 year after June 16, 2020. The program will let law enforcement agencies send the FBI reports about suicides and suicide attempts to help prevent future deaths and learn more about them. The information collected covers five areas: what happened before the event, the general location, the officer’s basic demographics, the officer’s job type (for example, investigator, corrections, line officer, or 911 dispatcher), and the method used. The FBI must work with a confidentiality committee to make publication rules that reduce the risk of identifying anyone. Not later than 2 years after June 16, 2020, and every year after that, the Attorney General must send Congress a report and post it on the FBI website. The reports may not include any information that would identify an officer. Definitions: “Law enforcement agency” = a Federal, State, Tribal, or local agency that enforces criminal laws. “Law enforcement officer” = a current or former officer, agent, or employee who is authorized to do or supervise law enforcement work. “State” = each State, the District of Columbia, and any U.S. commonwealth, territory, or possession.

Title 34, §50701

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(a)Not later than 1 year after June 16, 2020, the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall establish, for the purpose of preventing future law enforcement suicides and promoting understanding of suicide in law enforcement, the Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data Collection Program, under which law enforcement agencies may submit to the Director information on suicides and attempted suicides within such law enforcement agencies, including information on—

(1)the circumstances and events that occurred before each suicide or attempted suicide;

(2)the general location of each suicide or attempted suicide;

(3)the demographic information of each law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide;

(4)the occupational category, including criminal investigator, corrections officer, line of duty officer, 911 dispatch operator, of each law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide; and

(5)the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide.

(b)The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall work with the Confidentiality and Data Access Committee of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology to develop publication policies to manage the risk of identity disclosure based upon the best practices identified by other Federal statistical programs.

(c)Not later than 2 years after June 16, 2020, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall submit to Congress and publish on the website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a report containing the information submitted to the Director pursuant to subsection (a).

(d)The report described under subsection (c) may not include any personally identifiable information of a law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide.

(e)In this section—

(1)the term “law enforcement agency” means a Federal, State, Tribal, or local agency engaged in the prevention, detection, or investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a State, Tribal, or a political subdivision of a State;

(2)the term “law enforcement officer” means any current or former officer (including a correctional officer), agent, or employee of the United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a political subdivision of a State authorized by law to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a political subdivision of a State; and

(3)the term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.

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of Pub. L. 116–143, which is classified to this chapter, as the “Law

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Suicide Data Collection Act”, see section 1 of Pub. L. 116–143, set out as a

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of 2020 Amendment note under section 10101 of this title.

§50701 Information on suicide in law enforcement

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Title 34, §50701

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