Federal · Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

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

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

This statute requires the FBI to collect and publish annual reports on law enforcement officer suicides and suicide attempts, including demographic and occupational data, while protecting officer identities.

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the circumstances and events that occurred before each suicide or attempted suicide; the general location of each suicide or attempted suicide; the demographic information of each law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide; 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 the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide. 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. 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). The report described under subsection (c) may not include any personally identifiable information of a law enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide. the term “law enforcement agency” means a Federal, State, Tribal, or local agency engaged in the prevention, detection, or investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a State, Tribal, or a political subdivision of a State; 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 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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