---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60906"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60906"
heading: "Data collection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60906"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 609 — Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights"
---

# §60906. Data collection

- (a) **In general—** Beginning on the date that is three years after August 3, 2022, and annually thereafter, the Director of the National Institute of Justice shall publish statistics on the number of [cold case murders](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6).
- (b) **Manner of publication—** The statistics published pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) shall, at a minimum, be disaggregated by the circumstances of the [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6), including the classification of the offense, and by [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–164, § 7, Aug. 3, 2022, 136 Stat. 1360.)