---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12313"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12313"
heading: "Information programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12313"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Violence Against Women"
  - "Part A — Safe Streets for Women"
  - "Subpart 2 — assistance to victims of sexual assault"
---

# §12313. Information programs


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall compile information regarding sex offender [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) programs and ensure that information regarding community [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) programs in the community into which a convicted sex offender is released is made available to each person serving a sentence of imprisonment in a Federal penal or correctional institution for a commission of an offense under [chapter 109A](/usc/18/chptI/ch109A.md) of title 18 or for the commission of a similar offense, including halfway houses and psychiatric institutions.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40154, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1922.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13943 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.