[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 12 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3428-3429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00926]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[OMB Number 1110-0NEW]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection 
eComments Requested; Under Attack: Assaults on Our Nation's Law 
Enforcement

AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

ACTION: 30-Day notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice 
(DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed 
information collection was previously

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published in the Federal Register on November 27, 2023 allowing a 60-
day comment period.

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 30 days until 
February 20, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have comments especially on the 
estimated public burden or associated response time, suggestions, or 
need a copy of the proposed information collection instrument with 
instructions or additional information, please contact: Kevin Harris/
FBI CJIS, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, WV 26306, (304) 625-
2000, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments and suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of 
information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of 
the following four points:

--Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility;
--Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
--Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and/or
--Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submission of responses.

    Written comments and recommendations for this information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and enter the title of the information collection.This 
information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. Follow 
the instructions to view Department of Justice, information collections 
currently under review by OMB.
    DOJ seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for 
three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than 
three (3) years without renewal. The DOJ notes that information 
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive 
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.

Overview of This Information Collection

    1. Type of Information Collection: New Collection.
    2. Title of the Form/Collection: Under Attack: Assaults on Our 
Nation's Law Enforcement.
    3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Officer Protocol 
Questionnaire or Offender Protocol Questionnaire/FBI CJIS Division.
    4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as 
well as a brief abstract: Affected Public: State, Local and Tribal 
governments, individual or households.
    Abstract: Serious assaults on law enforcement in the United States 
are a growing problem, with both assaults with injury and felonious 
killings of law enforcement officers trending upward (FBI, 2022). While 
the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) data 
collection answers many questions related to these assaults and deaths, 
such as the who, what, when, where, and how, the data does not answer 
why these assaults are happening. Without knowing and understanding why 
these assaults are happening, we cannot begin to prevent them. Outside 
of the previous studies conducted by the FBI, there is a lack of 
research into this question of why offenders assault police officers. 
In particular, there is a lack of research that looks at both the 
officer and the offender in such incidents, and how the relationship 
between the two impacts the assault. The purposes of this qualitative 
study are to examine the possibility of predicting assaults on officers 
and to use this information to prevent future assaults. To date, very 
few studies outside of the FBI's Officer Safety Awareness Training 
(OSAT) research projects, have looked at these assaults from the 
perspectives of both the officer and the offender. By interviewing 
officers and offenders, this study seeks to gain a more thorough 
understanding of why these incidents take place, and the context 
surrounding them. Based on the recent trends and the modicum of 
previous research, it is expected the current study would make a large 
contribution to what is currently known about these attacks, and would 
play a substantial role in the preparedness, prevention, and mitigation 
of these incidents by informing those who develop training and 
operational practices. This mixed method research effort will use the 
Perpetrator-Motive Research Design (PMRD). PMRD is a 12-step 
methodological design that focuses on gaining a thorough understanding 
of the motivations of offenders. Interviewing incarcerated offenders 
allows for increased accessibility, increased sample size, interviewer 
security, and avoidance of ethical or potential legal entanglements 
which interviewers might be exposed to while questioning offenders 
still at large or whose cases have not yet exhausted the criminal legal 
process. Because PMRD is suited to identify and understand offender 
motives, the findings can be used in the development of training 
interventions for law enforcement officials which could improve officer 
safety. As part of the study, researchers will also seek to examine the 
incident reports associated with the assaults and the FBI criminal 
history record information of offenders. Researchers will also seek to 
obtain, examine, and use any body-worn camera or dashboard camera 
recordings associated with the assaults for research and training 
purposes.
    5. Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
    6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 120.
    7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 hours.
    8. Frequency: This is a one-time collection.
    9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 240.
    10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
    If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo, 
Department Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning Staff, Justice 
Management Division, United States Department of Justice, Two 
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218 Washington, DC 20530.

    Dated: January 12, 2024.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2024-00926 Filed 1-17-24; 8:45 am]
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