(1) RECIPIENTS.—Each recipient of a grant 
under this section shall submit to the Attorney Gen-
eral, for each year in which funds from a grant re-
ceived under this section are expended, a report con-
taining— 
(A) a summary of the activities carried out 
with grant funds during that year; 
(B) an assessment of the effectiveness of 
the crime prevention, research, and intervention 
activities of the recipient, based on data col-
lected by the grant recipient; 
(C) a strategic plan for the year following 
the year described in paragraph (1); 
(D) evidence of consultation and coopera-
tion with local, State, or Federal law enforce-
ment or, if the grant recipient is a government 
entity, evidence of consultation with an organi-
zation engaged in any activity described in sub-
section (b); and 
(E) such other information as the Attorney 
General may require. 
(2) ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall sub-
mit to Congress a report, based on the reports sub-
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mitted under paragraph (1), identifying the best 
practices of grant recipients under this section for 
responding to gang-related issues, and important re-
search relating to such best practices and issues. 
The Attorney General shall make such report pub-
licly available. 
(e) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘units of 
local government’’ includes sheriffs departments, police 
departments, and local prosecutor offices. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated for grants under this 
section $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2010 
through 2014. 
SEC. 303. ENHANCEMENT OF PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBOR-
HOODS INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE ENFORCE-
MENT OF CRIMINAL LAWS AGAINST VIOLENT 
GANGS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—While maintaining the focus of 
Project Safe Neighborhoods as a comprehensive, strategic 
approach to reducing gun violence in America, the Attor-
ney General is authorized to expand the Project Safe 
Neighborhoods program to require each United States at-
torney to— 
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(1) identify, investigate, and prosecute signifi-
cant criminal street gangs operating within their dis-
trict; and 
(2) coordinate the identification, investigation, 
and prosecution of criminal street gangs among Fed-
eral, State, and local law enforcement agencies. 
(b) ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR PROJECT SAFE NEIGH-
BORHOODS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may 
hire Assistant United States attorneys, non-attorney 
coordinators, or paralegals to carry out the provi-
sions of this section. 
(2) ENFORCEMENT.—The Attorney General 
may hire Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
Explosives agents for, and otherwise expend addi-
tional resources in support of, the Project Safe 
Neighborhoods/Firearms Violence Reduction pro-
gram. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014 to carry out this 
section. Any funds made available under this paragraph 
shall remain available until expended. 
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SEC. 304. 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 2010 through 2014 to carry 
out this section. 
(2) AVAILABILITY.—Any amounts appropriated 
under paragraph (1) shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
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SEC. 305. GRANTS TO PROSECUTORS AND LAW ENFORCE-
MENT TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIME. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 31702 of the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 
U.S.C. 13862) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) to hire additional prosecutors to— 
‘‘(A) allow more cases to be prosecuted; 
and 
‘‘(B) reduce backlogs; and 
‘‘(6) to fund technology, equipment, and train-
ing for prosecutors and law enforcement in order to 
increase accurate identification of gang members 
and violent offenders, and to maintain databases 
with such information to facilitate coordination 
among law enforcement and prosecutors.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
31707 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13867) is amended to read as 
follows: 
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‘‘SEC. 31707. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There 
are 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated 
$20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 
2014 to carry out this subtitle.’’. 
SEC. 306. TRAINING AT THE NATIONAL ADVOCACY CENTER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The National District Attorneys 
Association may use the services of the National Advocacy 
Center in Columbia, South Carolina, to conduct a national 
training program for State and local prosecutors for the 
purpose of improving the professional skills of State and 
local prosecutors and enhancing the ability of Federal, 
State, and local prosecutors to work together. 
(b) TRAINING.—The National Advocacy Center in 
Columbia, South Carolina, may provide comprehensive 
continuing legal education in the areas of trial practice, 
substantive legal updates, and support staff training. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 
to carry out this section $6,500,000, to remain available 
until expended, for fiscal years 2010 through 2013. 
SEC. 307. SHORT-TERM STATE WITNESS PROTECTION SEC-
TION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Chapter 37 of title 28, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
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‘‘§ 570. Short-Term State Witness Protection Section 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
United States Marshals Service a Short-Term State Wit-
ness Protection Section which shall provide protection for 
witnesses in State and local trials involving homicide or 
other major violent crimes pursuant to cooperative agree-
ments with State and local criminal prosecutor’s offices 
and the United States attorney for the District of Colum-
bia. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Short-Term State Wit-
ness Protection Section shall give priority in award-
ing grants and providing services to— 
‘‘(A) criminal prosecutor’s offices for 
States with an average of not less than 100 
murders per year; and 
‘‘(B) criminal prosecutor’s offices for juris-
dictions that include a city, town, or township 
with an average violent crime rate per 100,000 
inhabitants that is above the national average. 
‘‘(2) CALCULATION.—The rate of murders and 
violent crime under paragraph (1) shall be calculated 
using the latest available crime statistics from the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 5-year 
period immediately preceding an application for pro-
tection.’’. 
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(2) CHAPTER ANALYSIS.—The chapter analysis 
for chapter 37 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by striking the items relating to sections 
570 through 576 and inserting the following: 
‘‘570. Short-Term State Witness Protection Section.’’. 
(b) GRANT PROGRAM.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 
(A) the term ‘‘eligible prosecutor’s office’’ 
means a State or local criminal prosecutor’s of-
fice or the United States attorney for the Dis-
trict of Columbia; and 
(B) the term ‘‘serious violent felony’’ has 
the same meaning as in section 3559(c)(2) of 
title 18, United States Code. 
(2) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General 
is authorized to make grants to eligible prosecu-
tor’s offices for purposes of identifying wit-
nesses in need of protection or providing short 
term protection to witnesses in trials involving 
homicide or serious violent felony. 
(B) ALLOCATION.—Each eligible prosecu-
tor’s office receiving a grant under this sub-
section may— 
(i) use the grant to identify witnesses 
in need of protection or provide witness 
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protection (including tattoo removal serv-
ices); or 
(ii) pursuant to a cooperative agree-
ment with the Short-Term State Witness 
Protection Section of the United States 
Marshals Service, credit the grant to the 
Short-Term State Witness Protection Sec-
tion to cover the costs to the section of 
providing witness protection on behalf of 
the eligible prosecutor’s office. 
(3) APPLICATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Each eligible prosecu-
tor’s office desiring a grant under this sub-
section shall submit an application to the Attor-
ney General at such time, in such manner, and 
accompanied by such information as the Attor-
ney General may reasonably require. 
(B) CONTENTS.—Each application sub-
mitted under subparagraph (A) shall— 
(i) describe the activities for which as-
sistance under this subsection is sought; 
and 
(ii) provide such additional assurances 
as the Attorney General determines to be 
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