42 U.S.C. § 5779
Section 5779 · Reporting requirement
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Mack v. United States (1995)
Most recently applied in City of Chi. v. Sessions (July 2018)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Each Federal, State, and local law enforcement agency shall report each case of a missing child under the age of 21 reported to such agency to the National Crime Information Center of the Department of Justice.
The Attorney General may establish guidelines for the collection of such reports including procedures for carrying out the purposes of this section and section 5780 of this title.1
The Attorney General shall publish an annual statistical summary of the reports received under this section and section 5780 of this title.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
References in Text
This section and section 5780 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “this Act”, and was translated as reading “this title”, meaning title XXXVII of Pub. L. 101–647, which enacted this section and section 5780 of this title, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Crime Control Act of 1990, and not as part of the Missing Children's Assistance Act which comprises this subchapter, nor as part of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
2003—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–21 substituted “age of 21” for “age of 18”.