Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-34/chapter-209/section-20945.md
T
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

3.4 KiB
Raw Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 34 U.S.C. § 20945 Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking us united_states_code code_section 34 CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT 209 CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFETY 20945 34 U.S.C. § 20945 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc34@119-100.zip /us/usc/t34/s20945 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-34/usc34.xml dec428e6b20a2a1b9f1b7eca295317055c588d7d58d3d984d7da28210d9dfd40 7528207b20373f75fea96478ab5313727f47852e5364ee8c5ea18909f66a9da3 2a08e9eb856d4f771efc14466fca470fed5a4aabe3d7b36aa6ae4d3635abee92 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

34 U.S.C. § 20945 - Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking

Text

(a) Establishment There is established within the Department of Justice, under the general authority of the Attorney General, an Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “SMART Office”).

(b) Director The SMART Office shall be headed by a Director who shall be appointed by the President. The Director shall report to the Attorney General through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs and shall have final authority for all grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts awarded by the SMART Office. The Director shall not engage in any employment other than that of serving as the Director, nor shall the Director hold any office in, or act in any capacity for, any organization, agency, or institution with which the Office makes any contract or other arrangement.

(c) Duties and functions The SMART Office is authorized to—

(1) administer the standards for the sex offender registration and notification program set forth in this chapter;

(2) administer grant programs relating to sex offender registration and notification authorized by this chapter and other grant programs authorized by this chapter as directed by the Attorney General;

(3) cooperate with and provide technical assistance to States, units of local government, tribal governments, and other public and private entities involved in activities related to sex offender registration or notification or to other measures for the protection of children or other members of the public from sexual abuse or exploitation; and

(4) perform such other functions as the Attorney General may delegate.

(Pub. L. 109248, title I, § 146, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 607.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

References in TextThis chapter, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), (2), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 109248, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 587, known as the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 2006 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables.

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16945 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.