Sec. 4. Sharing of information between NCIC and NamUs
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Not later than the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date the online data entry format is updated under subsection (c), the Attorney General shall, in accordance with this section, provide for information on missing persons and unidentified human remains contained in the NCIC database to be transmitted to, entered in, and otherwise shared with the NamUs databases and for such information contained in the NamUs databases to be transmitted to, entered in, and otherwise shared with the NCIC database.
Not later than 18 months after the date on which the GAO report is submitted, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of the FBI, shall promulgate rules pursuant to notice and comment that specify the information the Attorney General may provide from the NCIC files to the NamUs databases for purposes of this Act. Such rules shall— provide for the protection of confidential, private, and law enforcement sensitive information contained in the NCIC files; be promulgated only after the Director approves recommendations by the Advisory Policy Board of the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the FBI; specify the circumstances in which portions of information may be withheld from transfer, entry, or sharing from the NCIC database to the NamUs databases; and provide that once an authorized agency provides an authorization to permit the transmission, entering, or sharing of information (or portions of information) from the NCIC database to the NamUs databases, such authorization shall be deemed to apply to any updates made to such information, unless otherwise specified by the agency.
With respect to information submitted to the NCIC database before the end of the 30-day period described in subsection (a), the Attorney General may solicit from appropriate authorized agencies authorization to transmit, enter, or share such information. Not later than 18 months after the date the GAO report is submitted, the Attorney General shall update the online data entry format for the NCIC database and NamUs databases to provide State criminal justice agencies, offices of medical examiners, and offices of coroners with the option to authorize the submission of new information and data that is reported to and entered into the NCIC database to be submitted to and entered into the NamUs databases.
In the case of the NCIC database, an update described in paragraph
(1)shall include an update to the NCIC database online data entry format that States use in submitting missing persons and unidentified remains reports, including the addition of a new data field allowing States, on behalf of the authorized agency that originally submitted the data, to select whether or not to have the NCIC report, subject to the rules promulgated under subsection (b), shared with the NamUs databases. Crime Control Act of 1990 To require reports of missing children to NamUs Section 3701(a) of title XXXVII of the Crime Control Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 5779(a) ) is amended by striking the period and inserting the following: and, consistent with section 4 (including rules promulgated pursuant to section 4(b)) of the . Help Find the Missing Act , shall also report such case, either directly or through authorization described in such section to transmit, enter, or share information on such case, to the NamUs databases (as defined in section 8 of such Act). Section 3702 of title XXXVII of the Crime Control Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 5780 ) is amended— in paragraph (2), by striking or the National Crime Information Center computer database and inserting , the National Crime Information Center computer database, or the NamUs databases (as defined in section 8 of the ; Help Find the Missing Act ) in paragraph (3), in the undesignated matter following subparagraph (C), by inserting after receive such reports the following: and is entered within 60 days of receipt in the NamUs databases (as so defined) ; and in paragraph (4)— in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting or the NamUs databases after National Crime Information Center ; and in subparagraph (A), by striking and National Crime Information Center computer networks and inserting , National Crime Information Center computer networks, and the NamUs databases . The amendments made by this subsection shall apply with respect to reports made before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act beginning on the last day of the 30-day period described in subsection (a). An authorized agency may remove or override information (or portions of information) from the NamUs database, and correspondingly from the NCIC database if the information was transferred from the NamUs database under this Act, if such information is submitted on behalf of a public user and such information is deemed by the authorized agency to be inaccurate.
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