§30106 Annual Reports

Summary

The Attorney General must send Congress a report no later than one year after October 13, 2008, and then every year by May 1 (the first was due May 1, 2009). The FBI Director must send the same kind of report on the same schedule. These reports can be part of the Department of Justice’s yearly performance report. They must list details about grant programs (who applied, who got grants, how much, how money was spent, what each grant was for, recipient reports on results, and a DOJ statement for each grant saying whether its goals were met), activities by additional FBI agents and related training, results from an organized crime plan, hiring and training under the law and the investigations and prosecutions that followed, and any other information the Attorney General thinks is relevant. Grantees who don’t follow the rules may face sanctions in the Office of Justice Programs Financial Guide. Both reports must also summarize work on intellectual property crimes. That summary must review DOJ and FBI policies across relevant offices, list successes and failures, give numbers of investigations, arrests, and prosecutions (including numbers of defendants, convictions, sentences, and the statutory maximums and average sentences), and assess staff, money, time, technology, and training devoted to these cases (including counts of investigators, prosecutors, and forensic specialists). The first reports must cover the five years before October 13, 2008, and the one year after that date.