34 U.S.C. § 20945: Office of Sex Offender…

§20945 Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking

Title 34 › Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons › CHAPTER 209 — CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFETY › SUBCHAPTER I — SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION › Part B — Improving Federal Criminal Law Enforcement To Ensure Sex Offender Compliance With Registration and Notification Requirements and Protection of Children From Violent Predators › § 20945

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates an office inside the Department of Justice called the SMART Office. The President must appoint a Director who reports to the Attorney General through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. The Director has final say over the office’s grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts. The Director must work only as Director and cannot hold jobs or positions with groups the office contracts with. The SMART Office must run and enforce the sex offender registration and notification rules in this law. It must manage related grant programs, help States, local and tribal governments, and other groups with technical support, and do other tasks the Attorney General gives it.

Title 34, §20945

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(a)Establishment

There is established within the Department of Justice, under the general authority of the Attorney General, an Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “SMART Office”).

(b)Director (c) Duties and functions

The SMART Office shall be headed by a Director who shall be appointed by the President. The Director shall report to the Attorney General through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs and shall have final authority for all grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts awarded by the SMART Office. The Director shall not engage in any employment other than that of serving as the Director, nor shall the Director hold any office in, or act in any capacity for, any organization, agency, or institution with which the Office makes any contract or other arrangement.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), (2), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 109–248, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 587, known as the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 2006 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16945 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.