34 U.S.C. § 20945 — Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking

(a) Establishment: The Department of Justice has an Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking — called the SMART Office — under the Attorney General's general authority. (b) Director: The President appoints a Director to head the SMART Office. The Director reports to the Attorney General through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs and has final say over every grant, cooperative agreement, and contract the SMART Office awards. The Director cannot hold any other job, or hold office in or act for any organization, agency, or institution that the Office contracts with. (c) Duties and functions: The SMART Office is allowed to (1) administer the standards for the sex offender registration and notification program set out in this chapter; (2) run grant programs tied to sex offender registration and notification, and other grant programs the Attorney General directs it to run under this chapter; (3) cooperate with and give technical help to States, local governments, tribal governments, and other public and private groups working on sex offender registration or notification, or on other ways to protect children and the public from sexual abuse or exploitation; and (4) perform any other duties the Attorney General delegates to it.