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Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act
[Public Law 116–143]
[This law has not been amended]
øCurrency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 116–143. It
was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above
and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law
through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://
www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/¿
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statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents.
The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large
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Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).¿
AN ACT To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide
information on suicide rates in law enforcement, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ø34 U.S.C. 10101 note¿ SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Law Enforcement Suicide Data
Collection Act’’.
SEC. 2. ø34 U.S.C. 50701¿ INFORMATION ON SUICIDE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of

enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall establish, for
the purpose of preventing future law enforcement suicides and promoting understanding of suicide in law enforcement, the Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data Collection Program, under which
law enforcement agencies may submit to the Director information
on suicides and attempted suicides within such law enforcement
agencies, including information on—
(1) the circumstances and events that occurred before each
suicide or attempted suicide;
(2) the general location of each suicide or attempted suicide;
(3) the demographic information of each law enforcement
officer who commits or attempts suicide;
(4) the occupational category, including criminal investigator, corrections officer, line of duty officer, 911 dispatch operator, of each law enforcement officer who commits or attempts
suicide; and
(5) the method used in each suicide or attempted suicide.
(b) POLICIES.—The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall work
with the Confidentiality and Data Access Committee of the Federal
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Committee on Statistical Methodology to develop publication policies to manage the risk of identity disclosure based upon the best
practices identified by other Federal statistical programs.
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General,
acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
shall submit to Congress and publish on the website of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation a report containing the information submitted to the Director pursuant to subsection (a).
(d) CONFIDENTIALITY.—The report described under subsection
(c) may not include any personally identifiable information of a law
enforcement officer who commits or attempts suicide.
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
(1) the term ‘‘law enforcement agency’’ means a Federal,
State, Tribal, or local agency engaged in the prevention, detection, or investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a State, Tribal,
or a political subdivision of a State;
(2) the term ‘‘law enforcement officer’’ means any current
or former officer (including a correctional officer), agent, or employee of the United States, a State, Indian Tribe, or a political
subdivision of a State authorized by law to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of
any violation of the criminal laws of the United States, a State,
Indian Tribe, or a political subdivision of a State; and
(3) the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the several States, the
District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.

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