---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10612"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10612"
heading: "Prohibition of participation by violent offenders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10612"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXX — Drug Courts"
---

# §10612. Prohibition of participation by violent offenders


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall—

- (1) issue regulations or guidelines to ensure that the programs authorized in this subchapter do not permit participation by [violent offenders](/usc/34/10613.md?p=a); and
- (2) immediately suspend funding for any grant under this subchapter, pending compliance, if the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) finds that [violent offenders](/usc/34/10613.md?p=a) are participating in any program funded under this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2952, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title II, § 2301(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1795.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797u–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Regulations

Pub. L. 110–199, title I, § 103(c), Apr. 9, 2008, 122 Stat. 668, provided that: “Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Apr. 9, 2008], the Secretary [probably should be “the Attorney General”] shall revise any regulations or guidelines described in section 2952 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797u–1) [now 34 U.S.C. 10612] in accordance with the amendments made by subsection (a) [amending section 10613 of this title]. Such regulations shall specify that grant amounts under part EE of such Act [34 U.S.C. 10611 et seq.] shall be reduced for any drug court that does not adopt the definition of ‘violent offender’ under such part, as amended by subsection (a) of this section, within 3 years after such date of enactment.”