34 U.S.C. § 30101 — State grant program for training and prosecution of computer crimes

(a) In general. — If appropriated money is available, the Office of Justice Programs must make a grant to each State. The State must use it with local governments, State and local courts, other States, or combinations of them, as subsection (b) provides. (b) Use of grant money. — Grants may establish and develop programs to: (1) help State and local law-enforcement agencies enforce criminal computer-crime laws, including Internet copyright infringement; (2) help those agencies educate the public to prevent and identify computer crime, including such infringement; (3) educate and train officers and prosecutors to investigate, forensically analyze evidence, and prosecute computer crime; (4) help officers and prosecutors obtain computers and other equipment for those investigations and analyses; and (5) promote sharing Federal law-enforcement expertise and information about investigating, analyzing, and prosecuting computer crime with State and local officers and prosecutors, including through multijurisdictional task forces. (c) Assurances. — To qualify, a State must assure the Attorney General that it: (1) has laws penalizing computer crime, such as laws against (A) computer-based fraudulent schemes; (B) unlawfully damaging, destroying, altering, deleting, or removing software or data in a computer, system, program, or network; or (C) unlawfully interfering with, or denying access to, the operation of a computer, program, system, or network; (2) has assessed State and local resource needs, including criminal-justice resources used to investigate and enforce computer-crime laws; and (3) has a plan to coordinate these programs with other federally funded technical-assistance and training programs, including directly funded local programs such as the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant program described in the cited 1998 appropriations Act. (d) Matching funds. — The Federal share may not exceed 90% of program or proposal costs unless the Attorney General waives all or part of this rule. (e) Authorization. — (1) Congress may appropriate $25,000,000 for each fiscal year 2009 through 2013. (2) In any fiscal year, the Attorney General may use no more than 3% for salaries and administration. (3) Until all eligible applications from a State or its local governments are funded, the State and its non-tribal grantees must receive at least 0.75% of that year’s total grant appropriation. The United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands each must receive 0.25%. (f) Grants to Indian tribes. — Despite the rest of this section, the Attorney General may use available money to make grants to Indian tribes for the uses in this section.