---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12532"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12532"
heading: "Gang investigation coordination and information collection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12532"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter V — Criminal Street Gangs"
---

# §12532. Gang investigation coordination and information collection

- (a) **Coordination—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) (or the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1)’s designee), in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s designee), shall develop a national strategy to coordinate gang-related investigations by Federal [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agencies.
- (b) **Data collection—** The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall acquire and collect information on incidents of gang violence for inclusion in an annual uniform crime report.
- (c) **Report—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall prepare a report on national gang violence outlining the strategy developed under [subsection (a)](#a) to be submitted to the President and Congress by January 1, 1996.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1996.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XV, § 150008, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2036.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14062 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.