---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 484a"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "484a"
heading: "Reciprocal information sharing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/484a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part I — Information Sharing"
---

# §484a. Reciprocal information sharing


Acting in accordance with a bilateral or multilateral arrangement, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), in the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16)’s discretion and on the basis of reciprocity, may provide information from the National Sex Offender Registry relating to a conviction for a sex offense against a minor (as such terms are defined in [section 20911 of title 34](/usc/34/20911.md)) to a foreign government upon the request of the foreign government, and may receive comparable information from the foreign government.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 895, as added Pub. L. 117–347, title III, § 323(a)(1)(B), Jan. 5, 2023, 136 Stat. 6207.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 895 of Pub. L. 107–296 amended Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, set out in the Appendix to Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 117–347, title III, § 323(a)(1)(A), Jan. 5, 2023, 136 Stat. 6206.