34 U.S.C. § 30102 — Development and support of cybersecurity forensic capabilities
submitted 25 years ago by Pub. L. 107-56 to r/title-34-CRIME-CONTROL-AND-LAW-ENFORCEMENT · 201 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires the Attorney General to establish and support regional computer-forensic laboratories. It lists the capabilities those laboratories must have and authorizes $50,000,000 for each fiscal year, with the money available until it is spent.
(a) In general. — The Attorney General must establish the regional computer-forensic laboratories that the Attorney General considers appropriate and support existing computer-forensic laboratories. The purpose is to ensure that all of these laboratories can: (1) conduct forensic examinations of seized or intercepted computer evidence related to criminal activity, including cyberterrorism; (2) provide training and education for Federal, State, and local law-enforcement personnel and prosecutors about investigating, forensically analyzing, and prosecuting computer-related crime, including cyberterrorism; (3) help Federal, State, and local law enforcement enforce criminal laws related to computer-related crime; (4) help Federal law-enforcement personnel and prosecutors share and promote the sharing of their expertise and information about investigating, analyzing, and prosecuting computer-related crime with State and local law-enforcement personnel and prosecutors, including through multijurisdictional task forces; and (5) carry out other activities that the Attorney General considers appropriate. (b) Authorization of appropriations. — (1) Authorization. — Congress may appropriate $50,000,000 in each fiscal year to carry out this section. (2) Availability. — Money appropriated under paragraph (1) remains available until it is spent.
The Attorney General shall establish such regional computer forensic laboratories as the Attorney General considers appropriate, and provide support to existing computer forensic laboratories, in order that all such computer forensic laboratories have the capability—
to provide forensic examinations with respect to seized or intercepted computer evidence relating to criminal activity (including cyberterrorism);
to provide training and education for Federal, State, and local law enforcement personnel and prosecutors regarding investigations, forensic analyses, and prosecutions of computer-related crime (including cyberterrorism);
to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in enforcing Federal, State, and local criminal laws relating to computer-related crime;
to facilitate and promote the sharing of Federal law enforcement expertise and information about the investigation, analysis, and prosecution of computer-related crime with State and local law enforcement personnel and prosecutors, including the use of multijurisdictional task forces; and
to carry out such other activities as the Attorney General considers appropriate.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated in each fiscal year $50,000,000 for purposes of carrying out this section.
Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–56, title VIII, § 816, Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 385.)
- 2001Enacted · Pub. L. 107-56 · 115 Stat. 385
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