---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 21902"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "21902"
heading: "Ashanti Alert communications network"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/21902"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 219 — Ashanti Alert Communications Network"
---

# §21902. Ashanti Alert communications network

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, establish a national communications network within the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to provide assistance to regional and local search efforts for [missing adults](/usc/34/21901.md?p=7) through the initiation, facilitation, and promotion of local elements of the network, in coordination with [States](/usc/34/21701.md?p=3), [Indian Tribes](/usc/34/21901.md?p=6), units of local government, [law enforcement](/usc/34/21701.md?p=1) agencies, and other concerned entities with expertise in providing services to adults.
- (b) **Integration with existing communications network—** In establishing the [Ashanti Alert communications network](/usc/34/21901.md?p=3) under [subsection (a)](#a), the Attorney General shall coordinate, when advisable, with missing person alert systems in existence as of December 31, 2018, such as the [AMBER Alert communications network](/usc/34/21901.md?p=1) and Silver Alert communications networks.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–468, title II, § 202, as added Pub. L. 115–401, § 2(5), Dec. 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 5337.)