14 U.S.C. § 529: Public availability of…

Summary

By the 15th of each month the Commandant must post on the Coast Guard website last month’s drug and person interdictions, listing how many drug seizures, amounts and types, and where, and how many people interdicted, including unaccompanied minors, and where. The Coast Guard need not collect new data or disclose confidential, classified, law‑enforcement‑sensitive, or other protected information.

Title 14, §529

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(a)In General.—

Not later than the 15th day of each month, the Commandant shall make available to the public on the website of the Coast Guard the number of drug and person interdictions carried out by the Coast Guard during the preceding month.

(b)Contents.—

In making information about interdictions publicly available under subsection (a), the Commandant shall include a description of the following:

(1)The number of incidents in which drugs were interdicted, the amount and type of drugs interdicted, and the Coast Guard sectors and geographic areas of responsibility in which such incidents occurred.

(2)The number of incidents in which persons were interdicted, the number of persons interdicted, the number of those persons who were unaccompanied minors, and the Coast Guard sectors and geographic areas of responsibility in which such incidents occurred.

(c)Rule of Construction.—

Nothing in this provision shall be construed to require the Coast Guard to collect the information described in subsection (b), and nothing in this provision shall be construed to require the Commandant to publicly release confidential, classified, law enforcement sensitive, or otherwise protected information.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification The text of subsec. (a) of this section, which was formerly set out as a note under section 522 of this title, renumbered as this section and amended by Pub. L. 119–60, § 7202(a), was based on Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXII, § 11269, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4064.

Prior Provisions

Prior section 531 and 532 were redesignated section 2901 and 2902 of this title, respectively.

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60 transferred section 11269 of Pub. L. 117–263 to the end of this subchapter and renumbered it as this section, made technical changes to conform it to other sections of this title, substituted “Public availability of information” for “Public Availability of Information on Monthly Migrant Interdictions”, in catchline, and “the number of drug and person” for “the number of migrant” in text, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsecs. (b) and (c). See Codification note above.

§529 Public Availability of Information