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§12401 Grant Program

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— Comprehensive Acts › Chapter 121— VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter III— VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part F— National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction › § 12401

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Attorney General can give money to states and local governments to help add stalking and domestic violence records to local, state, and national crime databases. To get a grant, a state or local government must promise it has or will set up a program to enter three types of records into the National Crime Information Center: warrants, arrests or convictions, and protection orders.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §12401

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(a)The Attorney General is authorized to provide grants to States and units of local government to improve and implement processes for entering data regarding stalking and domestic violence into local, State, and national crime information databases.

(b)To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a State or unit of local government shall certify that it has or intends to establish a program that enters into the National Crime Information Center records of—

(1)warrants for the arrest of persons violating protection orders intended to protect victims from stalking or domestic violence;

(2)arrests or convictions of persons violating protection 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by “orders intended to protect victims from stalking”. or domestic violence; and

(3)protection orders for the protection of persons from stalking or domestic violence.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14031 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2000—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–386 inserted “and implement” after “improve”.

Reference

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 12401

Title 34 — Navy

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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