[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3474 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3474

   To expand the Safe Streets Program, to establish a National Gang 
               Activity Database, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 5, 2007

 Mr. McNerney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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 Representatives 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''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES NEEDED BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF 
              INVESTIGATION TO INVESTIGATE 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 information to 
                law enforcement agencies throughout the country and, 
                subject to appropriate controls, to disseminate 
                aggregate statistical information 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, vehicles, and 
                other information useful for investigators 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 response 
                        to gang violence;
                            (iv) enhance officer safety;
                            (v) provide realistic, up-to-date figures 
                        and statistical data on gang crime and 
                        violence;
                            (vi) forecast trends and respond 
                        accordingly; and
                            (vii) more easily solve crimes and prevent 
                        violence; and
                    (D) be subject to guidelines, issued by the 
                Attorney General, specifying the criteria for adding 
                information to the database, the appropriate 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 enforcement 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 Information Sharing Systems such sums as 
        are necessary to use the secure intranet known as RISSNET to 
        electronically connect existing gang information systems 
        (including the RISSGang National Gang Database) with the 
        National Gang Activity Database, thereby facilitating the 
        automated information exchange of existing gang data by all 
        connected systems without the need for additional databases or 
        data replication.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise 
        authorized, there are authorized to be appropriated 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 expended.
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