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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Chapter 505 — National Blue Alert

§ 50502. Blue Alert communications network

Statutory text

The Attorney General shall establish a national Blue Alert communications network within the Department of Justice to issue Blue Alerts through the initiation, facilitation, and promotion of Blue Alert plans, in coordination with States, units of local government, law enforcement agencies, and other appropriate entities.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015

    Pub. L. 114–12 § 3 · 129 Stat. 192

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 50502

    (Pub. L. 114–12, § 3, May 19, 2015, 129 Stat. 193.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 114–12, § 3, May 19, 2015, 129 Stat. 193.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 3. BLUE ALERT COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK.   The Attorney General shall establish a national Blue Alert communications network within the Department of Justice to issue Blue Alerts through the initiation, facilitation, and promotion of Blue Alert plans, in coordination with States, units of local government, law enforcement agencies, and other appropriate entities.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14165a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 114–12, § 3, , 129 Stat. 193.)

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