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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1223
To make grants to States for providing information regarding parolees to
local law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 27, 2001
Mr. BACA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To make grants to States for providing information regard-
ing parolees to local law enforcement agencies, 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 ‘‘Parolee LEADS Public
Safety Grant Program Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS.—From amounts
made available to carry out this section, the Attorney Gen-
eral may make grants to eligible States for use by the
State to carry out an automated data system to provide
information regarding parolees to local law enforcement
agencies within the State.
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—For a State to be eligible to re-
ceive a grant under this section, the chief executive officer
of the State shall submit to the Attorney General an appli-
cation in such form and containing such information as
the Attorney General may require.
(c) REQUIRED ELEMENTS OF SYSTEM.—An auto-
mated data system referred to in subsection (a) shall in-
clude the following elements:
(1) INFORMATION ABOUT PAROLEES.—For each
person incarcerated by that State who is to be re-
leased from incarceration by reason of probation or
parole, the system shall, to the extent available, in-
clude the following information:
(A) Last, first, and middle name.
(B) Date of birth.
(C) Sex, race, height, weight, hair color,
and eye color.
(D) Date of release from custody.
(E) Whether the person is required to reg-
ister as a result of a State or Federal law and,
if so, the status of that registration.
(F) Social Security number, driver’s li-
cense number, and any identification number
assigned to the person by the State criminal
justice system or the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation.
(G) Place of incarceration.
(H) Whether the person has any distinctive
scar, mark, or tattoo and, if so, a description.
(I) The offense or offenses by reason of
which the person is incarcerated.
(J) Place of residence, including street
name and number (not a post office box), city
or town, and zip code, and the date on which
that place of residence is to become effective.
(K) A geographic coordinate for that place
of residence, in a format for use with a geo-
graphic information system or comparable sat-
ellite location system.
(L) Contact officer, including name and
telephone number, and an identification of that
officer’s unit.
(M) A digitized picture of the person.
(N) A digitized fingerprint of the person.
(2) COMPUTER
DATABASE.—The information
shall be maintained in a database that can be
accessed and processed by a local law enforcement
agency using a remote desktop computer system.
(3) ACCESS
TO
INFORMATION
UPON
RE-
LEASE.—Each local law enforcement agency having
jurisdiction over the place of residence of a person
referred to in paragraph (1) shall—
(A) upon the release from incarceration of
that person by reason of probation or parole, be
provided the information included in the system
with respect to that person; and
(B) thereafter, on a continuing basis, have
access to such information upon request of that
agency.
(d) RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF FUNDS.—
(1) MATCHING.—The Federal share of a grant
made under this section may not exceed 50 percent
of the total costs of the system for the fiscal year
for which the system receives that grant.
(2) NONSUPPLANTING.—Funds made available
pursuant to this section shall not be used to sup-
plant State funds, but shall be used to increase the
amount of funds that would, in the absence of Fed-
eral funds, be made available from State sources for
the purposes of this Act.
(3) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—A State may not
use more than five percent of the funds it receives
from this section for administrative expenses.