---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10619"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10619"
heading: "Technical assistance, training, and evaluation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10619"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXX — Drug Courts"
---

# §10619. Technical assistance, training, and evaluation

- (a) **Technical assistance and training—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may provide technical assistance and training in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter, including training for drug court personnel and officials on identifying and addressing co-occurring substance abuse and mental health problems.
- (b) **Evaluations—** In addition to any evaluation requirements that may be prescribed for grantees (including uniform data collection standards and reporting requirements), the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall carry out or make arrangements for evaluations of programs that receive support under this subchapter.
- (c) **Administration—** The technical assistance, training, and evaluations authorized by this section may be carried out directly by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), in collaboration with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51), or through grants, contracts, or other cooperative arrangements with other entities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2959, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title II, § 2301(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1797; amended Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title XIV, § 14007(2), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1296.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797u–8 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2016—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–255 inserted before period at end “, including training for drug court personnel and officials on identifying and addressing co-occurring substance abuse and mental health problems”.