Sec. 4. Notification by the United States Marshals Service
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The United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender Targeting Center may transmit an official notification of impending or current international travel of a convicted sex offender to the country or countries of destination of the convicted sex offender, including to the visa-issuing agent or agents in the United States of the country or countries. The United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender Targeting Center shall make available to the Center and the Department of State, information on travel by covered sex offenders in a timely manner for purposes of carrying out this Act.
The official notification under this subsection may be transmitted through such means as determined appropriate by the United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender Targeting Center, including through the INTERPOL notification system and a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attaché. The United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender Targeting Center shall collect all relevant data, including— the response of destination countries to notifications under subsection
(a)and to the transmittal of other relevant information on convicted sex offender travel, where applicable; any decision not to transmit a notification abroad, to the extent practicable; the number of transmissions made under subsection
(a)and the countries to which they are transmitted, respectively; and any other information deemed necessary and appropriate by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security. The United States Marshals Service’s National Sex Offender Targeting Center shall establish a mechanism to receive complaints from convicted sex offenders affected by notifications of destination countries of such convicted sex offenders under this section. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, may provide technical assistance to foreign authorities in order to enable such authorities to participate more effectively in the notification program system established under this section.