---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20941"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20941"
heading: "Federal assistance with respect to violations of registration requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20941"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 209 — Child Protection and Safety"
  - "Subchapter I — Sex Offender Registration and Notification"
  - "Part B — Improving Federal Criminal Law Enforcement To Ensure Sex Offender Compliance With Registration and Notification Requirements and Protection of Children From Violent Predators"
---

# §20941. Federal assistance with respect to violations of registration requirements

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General shall use the resources of Federal [law enforcement](/usc/34/21701.md?p=1), including the United States Marshals Service, to assist [jurisdictions](/usc/34/21502.md?p=6) in locating and apprehending [sex offenders](/usc/34/21502.md?p=9) who violate [sex offender](/usc/34/21502.md?p=9) registration requirements. For the purposes of [section 566(e)(1)(B) of title 28](/usc/28/566.md?p=e-1-B), a [sex offender](/usc/34/21502.md?p=9) who violates a [sex offender](/usc/34/21502.md?p=9) registration requirement shall be deemed a fugitive.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2007 through 2009 to implement this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 142, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 604.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16941 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.