14 U.S.C. § 529 — Public availability of information

(a) In General. By the 15th day of each month, the Commandant must make available to the public on the Coast Guard website the number of drug and person interdictions the Coast Guard carried out during the previous month. (b) Contents. For drug interdictions, the Commandant must state the number of incidents, the amount and type of drugs, and the Coast Guard sectors and geographic areas of responsibility where the incidents occurred. For person interdictions, the Commandant must state the number of incidents, the number of people interdicted, how many were unaccompanied minors, and the Coast Guard sectors and geographic areas of responsibility where the incidents occurred. (c) Rule of Construction. This provision does not require the Coast Guard to collect the information listed in subsection (b). It also does not require the Commandant to publicly release confidential, classified, law-enforcement-sensitive, or otherwise protected information.