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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3474 
To expand the Safe Streets Program, to establish a National Gang Activity 
Database, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007 
Mr. MCNERNEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To expand the Safe Streets Program, to establish a National 
Gang Activity Database, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Safe Streets 
Gang Crime Prevention Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES NEEDED BY THE FED-
ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO INVES-
TIGATE AND PROSECUTE VIOLENT CRIMINAL 
STREET GANGS. 
(a) EXPANSION OF SAFE STREETS PROGRAM.—The 
Attorney General is authorized to expand the Safe Streets 
Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the 
purpose of supporting criminal street gang enforcement 
teams. 
(b) NATIONAL GANG ACTIVITY DATABASE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 
establish a National Gang Activity Database to be 
housed at and administered by the Department of 
Justice. 
(2) DESCRIPTION.—The database required by 
paragraph (1) shall— 
(A) be designed to disseminate gang infor-
mation to law enforcement agencies throughout 
the country and, subject to appropriate con-
trols, to disseminate aggregate statistical infor-
mation to other members of the criminal justice 
system, community leaders, academics, and the 
public; 
(B) contain critical information on gangs, 
gang members, firearms, criminal activities, ve-
hicles, and other information useful for inves-
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tigators in solving and reducing gang-related 
crimes; 
(C) operate in a manner that enables law 
enforcement agencies to— 
(i) identify gang members involved in 
crimes; 
(ii) track the movement of gangs and 
members throughout the region; 
(iii) coordinate law enforcement re-
sponse to gang violence; 
(iv) enhance officer safety; 
(v) provide realistic, up-to-date figures 
and statistical data on gang crime and vio-
lence; 
(vi) forecast trends and respond ac-
cordingly; and 
(vii) more easily solve crimes and pre-
vent violence; and 
(D) be subject to guidelines, issued by the 
Attorney General, specifying the criteria for 
adding information to the database, the appro-
priate period for retention of such information, 
and a process for removing individuals from the 
database, and prohibiting disseminating gang 
information to any entity that is not a law en-
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forcement agency, except aggregate statistical 
information where appropriate. 
(3) USE
OF
RISS
SECURE
INTRANET.—From 
amounts made available to carry out this section, the 
Attorney General shall provide the Regional Infor-
mation Sharing Systems such sums as are necessary 
to use the secure intranet known as RISSNET to 
electronically connect existing gang information sys-
tems (including the RISSGang National Gang Data-
base) with the National Gang Activity Database, 
thereby facilitating the automated information ex-
change of existing gang data by all connected sys-
tems without the need for additional databases or 
data replication. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to amounts oth-
erwise authorized, there are authorized to be appro-
priated to the Attorney General $10,000,000 for 
each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012 to carry 
out this section. 
(2) AVAILABILITY.—Any amounts appropriated 
under paragraph (1) shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
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