§5705 Annual Reporting Requirements

Summary

The Attorney General must include information about missing and murdered Indians in the annual Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions report to Congress, starting the first fiscal year after October 10, 2020 and every year after. The report must use Justice Department data to show things like age, gender, tribal enrollment or affiliation if known, how many open cases in each State, the number of closed cases in each State for each calendar year for the most recent 10 years, and any other relevant facts the Attorney General chooses. The report must protect victims’ privacy by leaving out anything that could identify a person. It must also explain why the numbers may be incomplete and give recommendations to improve data collection. Starting the first fiscal year after October 10, 2020, the Attorney General must ask Tribal, State, and local law enforcement each year to send their missing-or-murdered Indians data in a DOJ-provided format. The Department of Justice must publish each year, on its website, the names of agencies that did submit data. Starting the first calendar year after October 10, 2020, the FBI must include gender in its yearly public statistics on missing and unidentified persons.