PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Attorney General can give grants to public agencies, nonprofit groups, or partnerships of them to run programs that help find missing adults. These programs can help police and families locate missing adults; keep a national, linked database for tracking adults law enforcement says are endangered because of age, reduced mental capacity, or risky disappearance circumstances (including when foul play is suspected or the situation is unknown); collect statistics; provide information and referrals to families; support public alerts and victim advocacy; and run a national clearinghouse for missing adults. The Attorney General can also make rules needed to carry out these programs.

Title 34, §40504

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(a)In general

The Attorney General may make grants to public agencies or nonprofit private organizations, or combinations thereof, for programs—

(1)to assist law enforcement and families in locating missing adults;

(2)to maintain a national, interconnected database for the purpose of tracking missing adults who are determined by law enforcement to be endangered due to age, diminished mental capacity, or the circumstances of disappearance, when foul play is suspected or circumstances are unknown;

(3)to maintain statistical information of adults reported as missing;

(4)to provide informational resources and referrals to families of missing adults;

(5)to assist in public notification and victim advocacy related to missing adults; and

(6)to establish and maintain a national clearinghouse for missing adults.

(b)Regulations

The Attorney General may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This title, referred to in subsec. (b), is title I of Pub. L. 106–468, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2027, which enacted this section and provisions set out as a note under this section. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of Kristen’s Act, and not as part of Jennifer’s Law which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 14665 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–401 substituted “this title” for “this Act”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Authorization of Funding Pub. L. 106–468, title I, § 102, formerly § 3, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2028, renumbered title I, § 102, and amended by Pub. L. 115–401, § 2(1), (2), (4), Dec. 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 5336; Pub. L. 116–277, § 2(b), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3370, provided that: “To the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Attorney General is authorized to use funds appropriated for the operationalization, maintenance, and expansion of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) for the purpose of carrying out this Act [enacting this section].”

§40504 Grants for the Assistance of Organizations to Find Missing Adults