34 U.S.C. § 21722 — Effective interagency coordination and Federal data collection

(a) In general Every year, the Attorney General, working with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, must (1) collect statistical data from federal law enforcement agencies, other relevant agencies, and federal prosecutors' offices about elder abuse cases — including cases where at least one victim was an elder, or that involved a financial scheme or scam mostly targeting or affecting elders — and (2) publish on the Department of Justice's public website (A) a summary of that data, and (B) recommendations for collecting more elder abuse data, including ways to improve data reporting across federal, state, and local agencies. (b) Requirement The data collected under (a)(1) must include: (1) the total number of elder-abuse-related investigations started by federal law enforcement agencies, other agencies, and federal prosecutors' offices; (2) the total number and types of elder abuse cases filed in federal courts; and (3) for each of those cases, (A) the district where it started, (B) the case's name and number, (C) a description of the acts that caused the elder abuse, (D) if a scheme or scam was involved, a description of it, (E) information about each person accused of committing the abuse, and (F) how the case turned out. (c) HHS requirement Every year, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must give the Attorney General statistical data the Secretary has collected on elder abuse cases investigated by adult protective services. This data gets folded into the summary published under (a)(2). (d) Prohibition on individual data None of the information reported under this section may include data that identifies a specific individual.