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Requires large local prosecutor offices that receive Byrne grant funds and serve jurisdictions of 380,000 people or more to send the Attorney General an annual report on prosecutions of covered offenses from the previous fiscal year. The Department of Justice must set uniform reporting standards, publish the aggregated reports on a public website, and share the collected information with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
Redesignates existing subsections (g) and (h) of Section 501 of subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10151) as subsections (h) and (i), respectively.
Inserts a new subsection (g) titled 'District Attorney Reporting Requirements' after subsection (f).
Requires each chief executive of a district attorney or prosecutor’s office that serves a jurisdiction of 380,000 or more persons and that receives funds under this part to submit annually to the Attorney General a report containing specified information for the previous fiscal year.
Report must include the total number of cases referred to the office for prosecution of a covered offense.
Report must include the number of cases the office declined to prosecute that involve a covered offense.
Who is affected and how:
District attorney and prosecutor offices in jurisdictions with populations of 380,000 or more that receive Byrne grant funds will be directly affected. They must collect and submit annual data on covered-offense prosecutions for the prior fiscal year, which will require staff time, record-keeping, and possible adjustments to data systems to meet DOJ standards.
The Department of Justice (Attorney General) will need to develop and maintain uniform reporting standards, collect and manage submissions, and host the information publicly. This creates an administrative workload for DOJ, including technical and oversight tasks.
State and local governments may face indirect costs if prosecutor offices require additional local resources or reallocate staff to comply with reporting requirements. Because no new funding is specified in the provided language, compliance could be an unfunded administrative burden for affected offices.
The public, Congress (specifically Judiciary Committees), researchers, and advocates will gain access to standardized, comparable data about covered-offense prosecutions in large jurisdictions. That increased transparency could inform oversight, policy debates, and research on prosecution patterns.
Potential privacy and case-sensitivity concerns may arise depending on the level of detail required by DOJ standards; those will need to be managed through the reporting format (e.g., aggregate vs. case-level data).
Overall effect: the bill creates a targeted transparency and reporting regime for large prosecutor offices funded by Byrne grants. It increases federal oversight and public access to prosecution data while imposing additional administrative duties on local offices without explicit funding in the text provided.
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced January 13, 2025 by Nicole Malliotakis · Last progress January 13, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House