---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 30102"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "30102"
heading: "Development and support of cybersecurity forensic capabilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/30102"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Prevention of Particular Crimes"
  - "Chapter 301 — Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Crimes"
---

# §30102. Development and support of cybersecurity forensic capabilities

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General shall establish such regional computer forensic laboratories as the Attorney General considers appropriate, and provide support to existing computer forensic laboratories, in order that all such computer forensic laboratories have the capability—
  - (1) to provide forensic examinations with respect to seized or intercepted computer evidence relating to criminal activity (including cyberterrorism);
  - (2) to provide training and education for Federal, [State](/usc/34/30502.md?p=4), and [local](/usc/34/30502.md?p=3) law enforcement personnel and prosecutors regarding investigations, forensic analyses, and prosecutions of computer-related crime (including cyberterrorism);
  - (3) to assist Federal, [State](/usc/34/30502.md?p=4), and [local](/usc/34/30502.md?p=3) law enforcement in enforcing Federal, [State](/usc/34/30502.md?p=4), and [local](/usc/34/30502.md?p=3) criminal laws relating to computer-related crime;
  - (4) to facilitate and promote the sharing of Federal law enforcement expertise and information about the investigation, analysis, and prosecution of computer-related crime with [State](/usc/34/30502.md?p=4) and [local](/usc/34/30502.md?p=3) law enforcement personnel and prosecutors, including the use of multijurisdictional task forces; and
  - (5) to carry out such other activities as the Attorney General considers appropriate.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—**
  - (1) **Authorization—** There is hereby authorized to be appropriated in each fiscal year $50,000,000 for purposes of carrying out this section.
  - (2) **Availability—** Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) shall remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–56, title VIII, § 816, Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 385.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified as a note under section 509 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.