Sec. 6. Information collection by States and units of local government
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In this section: The term applicable agency , with respect to an eligible entity that is— a State, means— a law enforcement agency of the State; and a law enforcement agency of a unit of local government within the State that— is a priority agency; and receives a subgrant from the State under this section; and a unit of local government, means a law enforcement agency of the unit of local government that is a priority agency. The term covered agency means— a State law enforcement agency; and a priority agency.
The term eligible entity means— a State; or a unit of local government that has a priority agency. The Attorney General may make grants to eligible entities to assist covered agencies within the jurisdiction of the eligible entity in conducting law enforcement activities or crime reduction programs to prevent, address, or otherwise respond to hate crime, particularly as those activities or programs relate to reporting hate crimes through the Uniform Crime Reports program, including— adopting a policy on identifying, investigating, and reporting hate crimes; developing a standardized system of collecting, analyzing, and reporting the incidence of hate crime; establishing a unit specialized in identifying, investigating, and reporting hate crimes; engaging in community relations functions related to hate crime prevention and education such as— establishing a liaison with formal community-based organizations or leaders; and conducting public meetings or educational forums on the impact of hate crimes, services available to hate crime victims, and the relevant Federal, State, and local laws pertaining to hate crimes; and providing hate crime trainings for agency personnel.
A State that receives a grant under paragraph
(1)may award a subgrant to a priority agency of a unit of local government within the State for the purposes under that paragraph. For each fiscal year in which an eligible entity receives a grant under subsection (b), the eligible entity shall— collect information from each applicable agency summarizing the law enforcement activities or crime reduction programs conducted by the agency to prevent, address, or otherwise respond to hate crime, particularly as those activities or programs relate to reporting hate crimes through the Uniform Crime Reports program; and submit to the Attorney General a report containing the information collected under subparagraph (A). In collecting the information required under paragraph (1)(A), an eligible entity shall require each applicable agency to submit a semiannual report to the eligible entity that includes a summary of the law enforcement activities or crime reduction programs conducted by the agency during the reporting period to prevent, address, or otherwise respond to hate crime, particularly as those activities or programs relate to reporting hate crimes through the Uniform Crime Reports program. In a report submitted under subparagraph (A), a law enforcement agency shall, at a minimum, disclose— whether the agency has adopted a policy on identifying, investigating, and reporting hate crimes; whether the agency has developed a standardized system of collecting, analyzing, and reporting the incidence of hate crime; whether the agency has established a unit specialized in identifying, investigating, and reporting hate crimes; whether the agency engages in community relations functions related to hate crime, such as— establishing a liaison with formal community-based organizations or leaders; and conducting public meetings or educational forums on the impact of hate crime, services available to hate crime victims, and the relevant Federal, State, and local laws pertaining to hate crime; and the number of hate crime trainings for agency personnel, including the duration of the trainings, conducted by the agency during the reporting period. Except as provided in paragraph (2), beginning not later than 1 year after the date of this Act, an eligible entity receiving a grant under subsection
(b)shall comply with subsection (c). The Attorney General— may provide a 120-day extension to an eligible entity that is making good faith efforts to collect the information required under subsection (c); and shall waive the requirements of subsection
(c)for a State or unit of local government if compliance with that subsection by the State or unit of local government would be unconstitutional under the constitution of the State or of the State in which the unit of local government is located, respectively.