§50501 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

Summary

Defines key terms. Coordinator: DOJ Blue Alert Coordinator; Network: Attorney General’s Blue Alert system. Blue Alert: a message on the network about an officer seriously injured or killed on duty, an officer missing in connection with official duties, or an imminent credible threat to kill or harm them. Blue Alert plan: how a State, local, or Federal agency shares alerts. Law enforcement officer: same as in federal law. State: the 50 States, DC, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Title 34, §50501

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In this chapter:

(1)The term “Coordinator” means the Blue Alert Coordinator of the Department of Justice designated under section 50503(a) of this title.

(2)The term “Blue Alert” means information sent through the network relating to—

(A)the serious injury or death of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty;

(B)an officer who is missing in connection with the officer’s official duties; or

(C)an imminent and credible threat that an individual intends to cause the serious injury or death of a law enforcement officer.

(3)The term “Blue Alert plan” means the plan of a State, unit of local government, or Federal agency participating in the network for the dissemination of information received as a Blue Alert.

(4)The term “law enforcement officer” shall have the same meaning as in section 10284 of this title.

(5)The term “network” means the Blue Alert communications network established by the Attorney General under section 50502 of this title.

(6)The term “State” means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14165 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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of Pub. L. 114–12, which is classified to this chapter, as the “Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015”, see section 1 of Pub. L. 114–12, set out as a

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of 2015 Act note under section 10101 of this title.

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