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GAO-02-209R 1 (2001-11-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalwk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: £ Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 November 30, 2001 The Honorable Jerrold Nadler Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on the Constitution Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Subject: Limited Voided Arrest Data From Federal, State, and Local Agencies Dear Mr. Nadler: In a letter dated March 21, 2001, you requested that we investigate and report on the number of voided arrests that occur at national and state levels. You expressed interest in voided arrests defined as any arrest resulting in the release of the person without the filing of formal charges; dismissal of proceedings against the person arrested; or a determination that the arrest was without probable cause. This definition is the same as that of the term voidable arrest, contained in H.R. 1154, a bill you introduced in the House of Representatives on March 21, 2001.' To respond to your request, we contacted various federal, state, and local agencies and collected information to design a methodology for this study. On September 25, 2001, we discussed the preliminary results of our work with your staff, who advised us that you would not be pursuing the passage of H.R. 1154, at least in the foreseeable future, because of the attacks that occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001. Since this study was intended to support H.R. 1154, your staff requested that we close out our work with this letter summarizing the information we collected to date and the difficulties involved in obtaining data on voided arrests. Federal Agencies We contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters and its Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS); Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) law enforcement statistics unit and its National Criminal History Improvement Program; U.S. Marshals Service at Los Angeles; and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters.2 'In this letter, we use the term voided arrests instead of voidable arrests. The two terms are synonymous as defined in your March letter to the Comptroller General and your bill, Clear Your Good Name Act, H.R. 1154, 107th Cong. (2001). 2We selected Department of Justice components responsible for making arrests, maintaining criminal history records, and collecting criminal justice statistics. GAO-02-209R Limited Voided Arrest Data

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