---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20943"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20943"
heading: "Federal assistance in identification and location of sex offenders relocated as a result of a major disaster"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20943"
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"
---

# §20943. Federal assistance in identification and location of sex offenders relocated as a result of a major disaster


The Attorney General shall provide assistance to [jurisdictions](/usc/34/21502.md?p=6) in the identification and location of a [sex offender](/usc/34/21502.md?p=9) relocated as a result of a major disaster.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 144, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 606.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16943 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.