the Institute shall select appropriate HIGAA areas 
to serve as primary national demonstration sites, 
based on the nature, concentration, and distribution 
of various gang types, the jurisdiction’s established 
capacity to integrate prevention, intervention, re-
entry and enforcement efforts, and the range of par-
ticular gang-related issues. After establishing pri-
mary national demonstration sites, the Institute 
shall establish such other secondary sites, to be 
linked to and receive evaluation, research, and tech-
nical assistance through the primary sites, as it may 
determine appropriate. 
(5) DISSEMINATION
OF
INFORMATION.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of its formation, 
the Institute shall develop and begin dissemination 
of information about methods to effectively reduce 
and prevent gang violence, including guides, research 
and assessment models, case studies, evaluations, 
and best practices. The Institute shall also create a 
website, designed to support the implementation of 
successful gang violence prevention models, and dis-
seminate appropriate information to assist jurisdic-
tions in reducing gang violence. 
(6) GANG
INTERVENTION
ACADEMIES.—Not 
later than 6 months after the date of its formation, 
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the Institute shall, either directly or through con-
tracts with qualified nonprofit organizations, estab-
lish not less than 1 training academy, located in a 
high intensity gang activity area, to promote effec-
tive gang intervention and community policing. The 
purposes of an academy established under this para-
graph shall be to increase professionalism of gang 
intervention workers, improve officer training for 
working with gang intervention workers, create best 
practices for independent cooperation between offi-
cers and intervention workers, and develop training 
for community policing. 
(7) SUPPORT.—The Institute shall obtain initial 
and continuing support from experienced researchers 
and practitioners, as it determines necessary, to test 
and assist in implementing its strategies nationally, 
regionally, and locally. 
(8) RESEARCH
AGENDA.—The Institute shall 
establish and implement a core research agenda de-
signed to address areas of particular challenge, in-
cluding— 
(A) how best to apply and continue to test 
the models described in paragraph (2) in par-
ticularly large jurisdictions; 
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(B) how to foster and maximize the con-
tinuing impact of community moral voices in 
this context; 
(C) how to ensure the long-term sustain-
ability of reduced violent crime levels once ini-
tial levels of enthusiasm may subside; and 
(D) how to apply existing intervention 
frameworks to emerging local, regional, na-
tional, or international gang problems, such as 
the emergence of the gang known as MS–13. 
(9) EVALUATION.—The National Institute of 
Justice shall evaluate, on a continuing basis, com-
prehensive gang violence prevention, intervention, 
suppression, and reentry strategies supported by the 
Institute, and shall report the results of these eval-
uations by no later than October 1 each year to the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
(10) FUNDS.—The Attorney General shall use 
not less than 3 percent, and not more than 5 per-
cent, of the amounts made available under this sec-
tion to establish and operate the Institute. 
(g) GANG SUPPRESSION INFORMATION GRANTS.— 
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(1) AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.—The Office 
of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice 
shall make grants, in accordance with such regula-
tions as the Attorney General may prescribe, to 
States, units of local government, and tribal govern-
ments to fund technology, equipment, and training 
for State and local sheriffs, police agencies, and 
prosecutor offices in order to— 
(A) increase accurate identification of gang 
members and violent offenders; 
(B) maintain databases with such informa-
tion to facilitate coordination among law en-
forcement and prosecutors; and 
(C) otherwise improve the investigation 
and prosecution of criminal street gangs. 
(2) GRANT REQUIREMENTS.— 
(A) PERIOD.—A grant under this sub-
section shall be made for a period of not more 
than 2 years. 
(B) MAXIMUM.—The amount of a grant 
under 
this 
subsection 
may 
not 
exceed 
$1,000,000. 
(3) ANNUAL
REPORT.—Each recipient of a 
grant under this subsection shall submit to the At-
torney General, for each year in which funds from 
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a grant received under this subsection are expended, 
a report containing— 
(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; 
(C) a strategic plan for the year following 
the year covered under paragraph (1); and 
(D) such other information as the Attorney 
General may require. 
(4) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘units of local government’’ includes sheriffs, police 
agencies, and local prosecutor offices. 
(h) USE OF FUNDS.—Of amounts made available to 
a local collaborative working group under this section for 
each fiscal year that are remaining after the costs of hir-
ing a full time coordinator for the local collaborative effort, 
funds shall be used as follows: 
(1) GANG
ENFORCEMENT
AND
RESEARCH 
FUNDING.—Fifty percent of the funds shall be 
used— 
(A) for the operation of criminal street 
gang enforcement teams; 
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