---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12441"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12441"
heading: "Grants to protect the privacy and confidentiality of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12441"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Violence Against Women"
  - "Part I — Privacy Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Stalking"
---

# §12441. Grants to protect the privacy and confidentiality of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), through the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, may award grants under this part to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), [Indian tribes](/usc/34/11103.md?p=18), territories, or local agencies or nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations to ensure that [personally identifying information](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-25) of adult, [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52), and child victims of [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12), sexual violence, [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36), and [dating violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-11) shall not be released or disclosed to the detriment of such victimized persons.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 41101, as added Pub. L. 109–162, title I, § 107, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 2983.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14043b of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.