---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10387"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10387"
heading: "Access to documents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10387"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Public Safety and Community Policing; “cops on the Beat”"
---

# §10387. Access to documents

- (a) **By Attorney General—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any pertinent books, documents, papers, or records of a grant recipient under this subchapter and to the pertinent books, documents, papers, or records of [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local governments, persons, businesses, and other entities that are involved in programs, projects, or activities for which assistance is provided under this subchapter.
- (b) **By Comptroller General—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall apply with respect to audits and examinations conducted by the Comptroller General of the United States or by an authorized representative of the Comptroller General.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1707, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1813.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796dd–6 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.