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§5705 Annual Reporting Requirements

Title 25 › Chapter 49— SAVANNA’S ACT › § 5705

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must put certain facts about missing and murdered Indians into the yearly Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions report to Congress, starting in the first fiscal year after October 10, 2020. For both missing and murdered cases, the report must include known information the Justice Department has, such as age, gender, Tribal enrollment or affiliation if available, how many open cases by State, how many cases were closed each calendar year for the most recent 10 years, and any other relevant details the Attorney General decides to include. The report must protect victims’ privacy by leaving out anything that could identify a person. It must also explain why the numbers might be incomplete and give ideas for better data collection. Each year the Attorney General must ask Tribal, State, and local law enforcement to send their relevant records in a DOJ format to help standardize the data, and the Department must publish the names of agencies that provided information for that fiscal year on its website. The FBI must add gender to its public annual statistics on missing and unidentified persons beginning the first calendar year after October 10, 2020.

Full Legal Text

Title 25, §5705

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(a)Beginning in the first fiscal year after October 10, 2020, the Attorney General shall include in its annual Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions report to Congress information that—

(1)includes known statistics on missing Indians in the United States, available to the Department of Justice, including—

(A)age;

(B)gender;

(C)Tribal enrollment information or affiliation, if available;

(D)the current number of open cases per State;

(E)the total number of closed cases per State each calendar year, from the most recent 10 calendar years; and

(F)other relevant information the Attorney General determines is appropriate;

(2)includes known statistics on murdered Indians in the United States, available to the Department of Justice, including—

(A)age;

(B)gender;

(C)Tribal enrollment information or affiliation, if available;

(D)the current number of open cases per State;

(E)the total number of closed cases per State each calendar year, from the most recent 10 calendar years; and

(F)other relevant information the Attorney General determines is appropriate;

(3)maintains victim privacy to the greatest extent possible by excluding information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context; and

(4)includes—

(A)an explanation of why the statistics described in paragraph (1) may not be comprehensive; and

(B)recommendations on how data collection on missing or murdered Indians may be improved.

(b)(1)Beginning in the first fiscal year after October 10, 2020, and annually thereafter, for the purpose of compiling accurate data for the annual report required under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall request all Tribal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to submit to the Department of Justice, to the fullest extent possible, all relevant information pertaining to missing or murdered Indians collected by the Tribal, State, and local law enforcement agency, and in a format provided by the Department of Justice that ensures the streamlining of data reporting.

(2)The Attorney General shall disclose and publish annually, including on the website of the Department of Justice, the name of each Tribal, State, or local law enforcement agency that the Attorney General has determined has submitted the information requested under paragraph (1) for the fiscal year in which the report was published.

(c)Beginning in the first calendar year after October 10, 2020, and annually thereafter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall include gender in its annual statistics on missing and unidentified persons published on its public website.

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Citation

25 U.S.C. § 5705

Title 25 — Indians

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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