Federal assistance with respect to violations of registration requirements

  1. Law
  2. USC 34
  3. Crime Control And Law Enforcement
  4. Protection of Children and Other Persons
  5. CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFETY
  6. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION
  7. Improving Federal Criminal Law Enforcement To Ensure Sex Offender Compliance With Registration and Notification Requirements and Protection of Children From Violent Predators
  8. Federal assistance with respect to violations of registration requirements

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§20941. Federal assistance with respect to violations of registration requirements

(a) In general

The Attorney General shall use the resources of Federal law enforcement, including the United States Marshals Service, to assist jurisdictions in locating and apprehending sex offenders who violate sex offender registration requirements. For the purposes of section 566(e)(1)(B) of title 28, a sex offender who violates a sex offender registration requirement shall be deemed a fugitive.

(b) Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2007 through 2009 to implement this section.

( Pub. L. 109–248, title I, §142, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 604 .)

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16941 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.


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