Title 34NavyRelease 119-73not60

§11295a Reporting

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— Comprehensive Acts › Chapter 111— JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION › Subchapter IV— MISSING CHILDREN › § 11295a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

If an organization gets the grant money, it must each year give the Administrator and the public (when appropriate) a report based only on the reports it receives — it cannot collect extra data. That report must list seven national counts: number of children reported missing; number reported as victims of non-family abductions; number reported as victims of family abductions; number of missing children recovered; number missing from State-sponsored care; number of those from State-sponsored care who were recovered; and number from State-sponsored care who are likely victims of child sex trafficking. If the organization gets the grant, it also must track attempted child abductions to find links and patterns, share that information with law enforcement, and share it with the public when appropriate. Each year it must give and publish the rules and steps it uses to set up forensic partnerships and recommend forensic help to police, and it must review those partnerships, referrals, and new technology each year.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §11295a

Navy — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)As a condition of receiving funds under section 11293(b) of this title, the grant recipient shall, based solely on reports received by the grantee and not involving any data collection by the grantee other than those reports, annually provide to the Administrator and make available to the general public, as appropriate—
(1)the number of children nationwide who are reported to the grantee as missing;
(2)the number of children nationwide who are reported to the grantee as victims of non-family abductions;
(3)the number of children nationwide who are reported to the grantee as victims of family abductions;
(4)the number of missing children recovered nationwide whose recovery was reported to the grantee;
(5)the number of children nationwide who are reported to the grantee as missing from State-sponsored care;
(6)the number of children nationwide who are reported to the grantee as missing from State-sponsored care whose recovery was reported to the grantee; and
(7)the number of children nationwide who are reported to the grantee as missing from State-sponsored care and are likely victims of child sex trafficking.
(b)As a condition of receiving funds under section 11293(b) of this title, the grant recipient shall—
(1)track the incidence of attempted child abductions in order to identify links and patterns;
(2)provide such information to law enforcement agencies; and
(3)make such information available to the general public, as appropriate.
(c)As a condition of receiving funds under section 11293(b) of this title, the grant recipient shall annually provide to the Administrator and make available to the general public, as appropriate, the criteria and processes the grantee uses to establish forensic partnerships and recommend forensic resources to law enforcement and shall annually review these forensic partnerships and forensic referrals against the criteria and review new advancements in technology.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 115–267 and Pub. L. 115–393 enacted identical sections.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 407 of Pub. L. 93–415 was renumbered section 408 and is classified to section 11296 of this title. Another prior section 407 of title IV of Pub. L. 93–415, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XVII, § 170303(2), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2043, established the Missing and Exploited Children’s Task Force, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 110–240, § 5(1), June 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 1564.

Amendments

2024—Subsec. (a)(5) to (7). Pub. L. 118–65, § 2(c)(1), added pars. (5) to (7). Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 118–65, § 2(c)(2), added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 11, 2018, and applicable to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 2018, see section 4 of Pub. L. 115–267, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2018 Amendment note under section 11291 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

34 U.S.C. § 11295a

Title 34Navy

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60