---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10643"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10643"
heading: "Statewide strategic prevention plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10643"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXXII — Crime Free Rural State Grants"
---

# §10643. Statewide strategic prevention plan

- (a) **In general—** A statewide strategic prevention plan shall be used by the [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) to assist local communities, both directly and through existing [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) programs and [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51), in building comprehensive, strategic, and innovative approaches to reducing crime, violence, and substance abuse based on local conditions and needs.
- (b) **Goals—** The plan must contain statewide long-term goals and measurable annual objectives for reducing crime, violence, and substance abuse.
- (c) **Accountability—** The [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) shall be required to develop and report in its plan relevant performance targets and measures for the goals and objectives to track changes in crime, violence, and substance abuse.
- (d) **Consultation—** The [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) shall form a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) crime free communities commission that includes representatives of [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local government, and community leaders who will provide advice and recommendations on relevant community goals and objectives, and performance targets and measures.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2987, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11027(b), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1834.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797y–2 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.