---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 41507"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "41507"
heading: "National Gang Intelligence Center"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/41507"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 415 — Resource Centers, Task Forces, Databases, and Programs"
---

# §41507. National Gang Intelligence Center

- (a) **Establishment—** The Attorney General shall establish a National Gang Intelligence Center and gang information database to be housed at and administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to collect, analyze, and disseminate gang activity information from—
  - (1) the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
  - (2) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives;
  - (3) the Drug Enforcement Administration;
  - (4) the Bureau of Prisons;
  - (5) the United States Marshals Service;
  - (6) the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security;
  - (7) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
  - (8) the Office of Justice Services of the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
  - (9) tribal, [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11), and local law enforcement;
  - (10) Federal, tribal, [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11), and local prosecutors;
  - (11) Federal, tribal, [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11), and local probation and parole offices;
  - (12) Federal, tribal, [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11), and local prisons and jails; and
  - (13) any other entity as appropriate.
- (b) **Information—** The Center established under [subsection (a)](#a) shall make available the information referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) to—
  - (1) Federal, tribal, [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11), and local law enforcement agencies;
  - (2) Federal, tribal, [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11), and local corrections agencies and penal institutions;
  - (3) Federal, tribal, [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11), and local prosecutorial agencies; and
  - (4) any other entity as appropriate.
- (c) **Annual report—** The Center established under [subsection (a)](#a) shall annually submit to Congress a report on gang activity.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 and for each fiscal year thereafter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1107, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3093; Pub. L. 111–211, title II, § 251(a), July 29, 2010, 124 Stat. 2297.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified as a note under section 534 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2010—Subsec. (a)(8). Pub. L. 111–211, § 251(a)(1)(A), (B), added par. (8) and redesignated former par. (8) as (9).

Subsec. (a)(9). Pub. L. 111–211, § 251(a)(1)(A), (C), redesignated par. (8) as (9) and substituted “tribal, State,” for “State”. Former par. (9) redesignated (10).

Subsec. (a)(10) to (12). Pub. L. 111–211, § 251(a)(1)(A), (D), redesignated pars. (9) to (11) as (10) to (12), respectively, and inserted “tribal,” before “State,” wherever appearing. Former par. (12) redesignated (13).

Subsec. (a)(13). Pub. L. 111–211, § 251(a)(1)(A), redesignated par. (12) as (13).

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–211, § 251(a)(2), inserted “tribal,” before “State,” wherever appearing.