Part C—Improved Training and Technical Automation

§14151. Improved training and technical automation

(a) Grants

(1) In general

The Attorney General shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, make grants to State, Indian tribal, and local criminal justice agencies and to nonprofit organizations for the purposes of improving criminal justice agency efficiency through computerized automation and technological improvements.

(2) Types of programs

Grants under this section may include programs to—

(A) increase use of mobile digital terminals;

(B) improve communications systems, such as computer-aided dispatch and incident reporting systems;

(C) accomplish paper-flow reduction;

(D) establish or improve ballistics identification programs;

(E) increase the application of automated fingerprint identification systems and their communications on an interstate and intrastate basis; and

(F) improve computerized collection of criminal records.

(3) Funding

No funds under this part may be used to implement any cryptographic or digital telephony programs.

(b) Training and investigative assistance

(1) In general

The Attorney General shall, subject to the availability of appropriations—

(A) expand and improve investigative and managerial training courses for State, Indian tribal, and local law enforcement agencies; and

(B) develop and implement, on a pilot basis with no more than 10 participating cities, an intelligent information system that gathers, integrates, organizes, and analyzes information in active support of investigations by Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies of violent serial crimes.

(2) Improvement of facilities

The improvement described in subsection (a) of this section shall include improvements of the training facilities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy at Quantico, Virginia.

(3) Intelligent information system

The intelligent information system described in paragraph (1)(B) shall be developed and implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and shall utilize the resources of the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program.

(c) Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated—

(1) to carry out subsection (a) of this section—

(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;

(B) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;

(C) $23,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;

(D) $23,000,000 for fiscal year 1999; and

(E) $24,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.¹

(2) to carry out subsection (b)(1) of this section—

(A) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;

(B) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;

(C) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;

(D) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1999; and

(E) $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2000; and

(3) to carry out subsection (b)(2) of this section—

$10,000,000 for fiscal year 1996.

(d) Definitions

In this section—

"Indian tribe" means a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, including an Alaska Native village (as defined in or established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.),² that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.

"State" means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands.

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, §210501, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2072.)

References in Text

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is Pub. L. 92–203, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§1601 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of Title 43 and Tables.

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 14214 of this title.

¹ So in original. The period probably should be a semicolon.

² So in original. A closing parenthesis probably should precede the comma.