---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12443"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12443"
heading: "Eligible entities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12443"
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"
---

# §12443. Eligible entities


Entities eligible for grants under this part include—

- (1) jurisdictions or agencies within jurisdictions having authority or responsibility for developing or maintaining public databases, registries or victim notification systems;
- (2) nonprofit nongovernmental victim advocacy organizations having expertise regarding confidentiality, privacy, and information technology and how these issues are likely to impact the safety of victims;
- (3) [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) agencies;
- (4) local governments or agencies;
- (5) [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) [tribal governments](/usc/34/11103.md?p=45) or [tribal organizations](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-45);
- (6) territorial governments, agencies, or organizations; or
- (7) nonprofit nongovernmental victim advocacy organizations, including statewide [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) and [sexual assault](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-35) coalitions.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 41103, 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–2 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.