§5936 Vulnerability Management Capability.

Summary

Allows the federal courts and the U.S. Marshals Service to run and grow programs to find, stop, and respond to threats against certain federal judges (active, senior, recalled, and retired judges listed in section 5933(4)(A)–(E)). They can monitor protections and court property, watch websites for personal information about judges and their families and remove it, take and analyze threat complaints and tell law enforcement, and provide required training. Specific courts are allowed to carry out these tasks for their own judges under section 5933(4)(F)–(I). The U.S. Marshals Service can hire more intelligence analysts, deputy marshals, and other staff; place people in State and major urban fusion/intelligence centers; expand analysts and security specialists across the 94 judicial districts and territories; and add marshals for protective duties. If they find threats to people who are not federal judges, they must share that information with the right federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies as much as possible. The Department of Justice, working with the named courts, must send a report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees no later than one year after December 23, 2022. The report must say how many and what kinds of threats and attacks happened and how they were reported, what security steps are used (like threat assessments, response plans, security systems, and gun permits such as deputations) to protect judges and their immediate families, and when and who made each step. The Attorney General may keep parts of the report secret if releasing them would endanger someone.