---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 41508"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "41508"
heading: "Grants to States for threat assessment databases"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/41508"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 415 — Resource Centers, Task Forces, Databases, and Programs"
---

# §41508. Grants to States for threat assessment databases

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General, through the Office of Justice Programs, shall make grants under this section to the highest [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) courts in [States](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) participating in the program, for the purpose of enabling such courts to establish and maintain a threat assessment database described in [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Database—** For purposes of [subsection (a)](#a), a threat assessment database is a database through which a [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) can—
  - (1) analyze trends and patterns in domestic terrorism and crime;
  - (2) project the probabilities that specific acts of domestic terrorism or crime will occur; and
  - (3) develop measures and procedures that can effectively reduce the probabilities that those acts will occur.
- (c) **Core elements—** The Attorney General shall define a core set of data elements to be used by each database funded by this section so that the information in the database can be effectively shared with other [States](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) and with the Department of Justice.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2011.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–177, title III, § 303, Jan. 7, 2008, 121 Stat. 2540.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3714a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.