USA PATRIOT Act, Title VII

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USA PATRIOT Act Titles
Title I: Enhancing Domestic Security against Terrorism
Title II: Enhanced Surveillance Procedures
Title III: International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-terrorist Financing Act of 2001
Title IV: Protecting the border
Title V: Removing obstacles to investigating terrorism
Title VI: Providing for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their families
Title VII: Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection
Title VIII: Strengthening the criminal laws against terrorism
Title IX: Improved intelligence
Title X: Miscellaneous
Title VII: Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection is the seventh of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Title VII has one section. The purpose of this title is to increase the ability of U.S. law enforcement to counter terrorist activity that crosses jurisdictional boundaries. It does this by amending the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

USA PATRIOT Act Titles
*Title I:* Enhancing Domestic Security against Terrorism
*Title II:* Enhanced Surveillance Procedures
*Title III:* International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-terrorist Financing Act of 2001
*Title IV:* Protecting the border
*Title V:* Removing obstacles to investigating terrorism
*Title VI:* Providing for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their families
*Title VII:* Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection
*Title VIII:* Strengthening the criminal laws against terrorism
*Title IX:* Improved intelligence
*Title X:* Miscellaneous

This title allows the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to "make grants and enter into contracts"#redirect , the code modified by section 701. with some groups to deal with terrorist organizations that cross jurisdictional boundaries. In addition, it gives the Bureau a budget with which to carry out these acts.

It consists of only one section, section 701, titled Expansion Of Regional Information Sharing System To Facilitate Federal-State-Local Law Enforcement Response Related To Terrorist Attacks. It modifies , which is part of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. This code, as stated before the USA PATRIOT Act, allowed the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (a division of the Justice Department) to "make grants and enter into contracts" with State, local criminal authorities, and non-profit organizations to stop criminal activities that cross jurisdictional boundaries.

Section 701 adds "terrorist conspiracies and activities" to "criminal activities."USA PATRIOT Act (U.S. H.R. 3162, Public Law 107-56), Title VII, Sec. 701, (1). It also adds to the list of items that grants and contacts may be made for "secure information sharing systems" to aid in "addressing multi-jurisdictional terrorist conspiracies and activities."

Section 701 gives the Bureau of Justice Assistance a budget to use in carrying out these sections in the amount of $50,000,000 for the 2002 fiscal year, and $100,000,000, for the 2003 fiscal year.Ibid, (d)

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External links

[The USA PATRIOT Act] (.pdf file)

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