Not later than the 15th day of each month, the Commandant shall make available to the public on the website of the Coast Guard the number of drug and person interdictions carried out by the Coast Guard during the preceding month.
(b)
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In making information about interdictions publicly available under subsection (a), the Commandant shall include a description of the following:
(1)
The number of incidents in which drugs were interdicted, the amount and type of drugs interdicted, and the Coast Guard sectors and geographic areas of responsibility in which such incidents occurred.
(2)
The number of incidents in which persons were interdicted, the number of persons interdicted, the number of those persons who were unaccompanied minors, and the Coast Guard sectors and geographic areas of responsibility in which such incidents occurred.
(c)
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Nothing in this provision shall be construed to require the Coast Guard to collect the information described in subsection (b), and nothing in this provision shall be construed to require the Commandant to publicly release confidential, classified, law enforcement sensitive, or otherwise protected information.
Prior sections 531 and 532 were redesignated sections 2901 and 2902 of this title, respectively.
Amendments
Pub. L. 119–60section 11269 of Pub. L. 117–2632025— transferred to the end of this subchapter and renumbered it as this section, made technical changes to conform it to other sections of this title, substituted “Public availability of information” for “Public Availability of Information on Monthly Migrant Interdictions”, in catchline, and “the number of drug and person” for “the number of migrant” in text, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsecs. (b) and (c). See Codification note above.