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§12332 State Databases

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— Comprehensive Acts › Chapter 121— VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter III— VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part B— Safe Homes for Women › Subpart 2— data and research › § 12332

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must study how states can set up central databases to track how often sexual and domestic violence crimes happen. For the study, the Attorney General must talk with criminal justice data experts, state statistical officials, law enforcement, and nonprofit victim-service groups, and must include their views and suggestions in the final report. The study must be finished and the report sent to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees no later than 1 year after September 13, 1994. Congress authorized $200,000 for fiscal year 1996 to carry out this work.

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Title 34, §12332

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(a)The Attorney General shall study and report to the States and to Congress on how the States may collect centralized databases on the incidence of sexual and domestic violence offenses within a State.
(b)In conducting its study, the Attorney General shall consult persons expert in the collection of criminal justice data, State statistical administrators, law enforcement personnel, and nonprofit nongovernmental agencies that provide direct services to victims of domestic violence. The final report shall set forth the views of the persons consulted on the recommendations.
(c)The Attorney General shall ensure that no later than 1 year after September 13, 1994, the study required under subsection (a) is completed and a report describing the findings made is submitted to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
(d)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $200,000 for fiscal year 1996.

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Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13962 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 12332

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Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60