§3167 Reports to Congress

Summary

The Administrative Office of the United States Courts, with the approval of the Judicial Conference, must send regular reports to Congress. Those reports are due within three months after the final deadline for plans under section 3165(e). They must recommend any needed law changes or extra money to meet the chapter’s time limits and goals. The reports must describe the criminal docket when each plan was adopted, how much pretrial detention and release there is, and the time limits, procedures, systems, and other ways cases have been or can be sped up. They must also explain why delays covered by section 3161(h) were not enough, list the types of offenses and the numbers of defendants and counts missing the time limits in subsections (b) and (c) of section 3161, say what extra judicial resources would be needed to meet those limits, describe remedial steps used in low‑compliance districts or successful practices from high‑compliance districts, explain why a district that had trouble did not seek relief under section 3174, and show the effect of meeting the time limits on the civil docket using information from sections 3166 and 3170. By December 31, 1979, the Department of Justice must give Congress a report on how this chapter affected each United States Attorney’s office. That report must cover why section 3161(h) was not adequate in noncompliant cases, what remedial measures were tried, what extra resources those offices would need to comply, any suggested changes to guidelines or statutes, and how meeting the time limits affected civil litigation by the United States Attorneys and what rule, law, or resource changes would be needed so civil cases are not harmed.