---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10691"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10691"
heading: "Sex offender apprehension grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10691"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXXVII — Sex Offender Apprehension Grants; Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment Grants"
---

# §10691. Sex offender apprehension grants

- (a) **Authority to make sex offender apprehension grants—**
  - (1) **In general—** From amounts made available to carry out this subchapter, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make grants to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), units of local government, [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) [tribal governments](/usc/34/11103.md?p=45), other public and private entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia thereof for activities specified in [paragraph (2)](#a-2).
  - (2) **Covered activities—** An activity referred to in [paragraph (1)](#a-1) is any program, project, or other activity to assist a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) in enforcing sex offender registration requirements.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2007 through 2009 to carry out this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 3011, as added Pub. L. 109–248, title VI, § 623, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 635.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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