Geospatial Support for Atrocity Accountability Act 2022-05-12 Introduced in House Geospatial Support for Atrocity Accountability Act

This bill requires the Department of State to ensure that information and intelligence related to war crimes and atrocities are shared within the State Department and with certain other entities. For example, the State Department's Atrocity Warning Task Force must provide unclassified commercial geospatial imagery to domestic and international courts prosecuting persons responsible for crimes against humanity, if such imagery may provide evidence of such crimes.

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