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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2519. Reports concerning intercepted wire, oral, or electronic communications
(1) Within thirty days after the expiration of an order (or each
extension thereof) entered under section 2518, or the denial of an
order approving an interception, the issuing or denying judge shall
report to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts -
(a) the fact that an order or extension was applied for;
(b) the kind of order or extension applied for (including
whether or not the order was an order with respect to which the
requirements of sections 2518(1)(b)(ii) and 2518(3)(d) of this
title did not apply by reason of section 2518(11) of this title);
(c) the fact that the order or extension was granted as applied
for, was modified, or was denied;
(d) the period of interceptions authorized by the order, and
the number and duration of any extensions of the order;
(e) the offense specified in the order or application, or
extension of an order;
(f) the identity of the applying investigative or law
enforcement officer and agency making the application and the
person authorizing the application; and
(g) the nature of the facilities from which or the place where
communications were to be intercepted.
(2) In January of each year the Attorney General, an Assistant
Attorney General specially designated by the Attorney General, or
the principal prosecuting attorney of a State, or the principal
prosecuting attorney for any political subdivision of a State,
shall report to the Administrative Office of the United States
Courts -
(a) the information required by paragraphs (a) through (g) of
subsection (1) of this section with respect to each application
for an order or extension made during the preceding calendar
year;
(b) a general description of the interceptions made under such
order or extension, including (i) the approximate nature and
frequency of incriminating communications intercepted, (ii) the
approximate nature and frequency of other communications
intercepted, (iii) the approximate number of persons whose
communications were intercepted, (iv) the number of orders in
which encryption was encountered and whether such encryption
prevented law enforcement from obtaining the plain text of
communications intercepted pursuant to such order, and (v) the
approximate nature, amount, and cost of the manpower and other
resources used in the interceptions;
(c) the number of arrests resulting from interceptions made
under such order or extension, and the offenses for which arrests
were made;
(d) the number of trials resulting from such interceptions;
(e) the number of motions to suppress made with respect to such
interceptions, and the number granted or denied;
(f) the number of convictions resulting from such interceptions
and the offenses for which the convictions were obtained and a
general assessment of the importance of the interceptions; and
(g) the information required by paragraphs (b) through (f) of
this subsection with respect to orders or extensions obtained in
a preceding calendar year.
(3) In April of each year the Director of the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts shall transmit to the Congress a
full and complete report concerning the number of applications for
orders authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral, or
electronic communications pursuant to this chapter and the number
of orders and extensions granted or denied pursuant to this chapter
during the preceding calendar year. Such report shall include a
summary and analysis of the data required to be filed with the
Administrative Office by subsections (1) and (2) of this section.
The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States
Courts is authorized to issue binding regulations dealing with the
content and form of the reports required to be filed by subsections
(1) and (2) of this section.
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