34 U.S.C. § 50701: Information on suicide in…

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By June 16, 2021, the Attorney General, through the FBI Director, must set up a Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data Collection Program. The program lets law enforcement agencies send the FBI information about suicides and suicide attempts by their staff. The data can include what happened beforehand, the general location, basic facts about the person, their job type (for example: criminal investigator, corrections officer, line officer, or 911 dispatcher), and the method used. The FBI must work with a federal statistics committee to make rules for publishing the data so people cannot be identified. By June 16, 2022, and every year after, the Attorney General must send Congress a report and post it on the FBI website. The report must not include any personally identifiable information. Law enforcement agency = a federal, State, Tribal, or local agency that enforces criminal laws. Law enforcement officer = a current or former officer, agent, or employee authorized to enforce criminal laws, including correctional officers. State = the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories and possessions.

Title 34, §50701

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(a)Establishment

Not later than 1 year after June 16, 2020, the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall establish, for the purpose of preventing future law enforcement suicides and promoting understanding of suicide in law enforcement, the Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data Collection Program, under which law enforcement agencies may submit to the Director information on suicides and attempted suicides within such law enforcement agencies, including information on—

(1)the circumstances and events that occurred before each suicide or attempted suicide;

(2)the general location of each suicide or attempted suicide;

(3)the demographic information of each law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide;

(4)the occupational category, including criminal investigator, corrections officer, line of duty officer, 911 dispatch operator, of each law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide; and

(5)the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide.

(b)Policies

The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall work with the Confidentiality and Data Access Committee of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology to develop publication policies to manage the risk of identity disclosure based upon the best practices identified by other Federal statistical programs.

(c)Report

Not later than 2 years after June 16, 2020, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall submit to Congress and publish on the website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a report containing the information submitted to the Director pursuant to subsection (a).

(d)Confidentiality

The report described under subsection (c) may not include any personally identifiable information of a law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide.

(e)Definitions

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(2)the term “law enforcement officer” means any current or former officer (including a correctional officer), agent, or employee of the United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a political subdivision of a State authorized by law to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a political subdivision of a State; and

(3)the term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.

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Suicide Data Collection Act”, see section 1 of Pub. L. 116–143, set out as a

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of 2020 Amendment note under section 10101 of this title.

§50701 Information on Suicide in Law Enforcement

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Title 34, §50701

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