Sec. 806. Special assistant United States Attorneys and cross-deputized attorneys
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In order to improve the enforcement of paragraphs
(8)and
(9)subsection
(g)of section 922 of title 18, United States Code, the Attorney General is authorized to— appoint tribal prosecutors and qualified attorneys working for the United States Government to serve as Special Assistant United States Attorneys for the purpose of prosecuting violations of such paragraphs; deputize State, tribal, territorial, and local prosecutors and law enforcement officers for the purpose of enhancing the capacity of the agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the United States Attorneys in responding to, investigating and prosecuting violations of such paragraphs; establish, in order to receive and expedite requests for assistance from State, tribal, territorial, and local law enforcement agencies responding to intimate partner violence in cases in which such agencies have probable cause to believe that the offender may be in violation of such paragraphs, points of contact within— each Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and each District Office of the United States Attorneys. The Attorney General shall— identify no less than 75 jurisdictions among the various States, territories, and tribes in which there are high rates of firearms violence and threats of firearms violence against intimate partners and other persons protected under paragraphs
(8)and
(9)subsection
(g)of section 922 of title 18, United States Code, and in which local authorities lack the resources to address such violence; and make appointments as described in subsection
(a)in such jurisdictions. There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.