Cybercrime Statistics Act

Cybercrime Statistics Act

This bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop a national strategy to reduce the incidence, coordinate federal investigations, and increase federal prosecutions of cybercrimes against individuals. The term "cybercrimes against individuals" means a crime that involves the use of a computer to cause personal harm to an individual.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation must design and create a category, in the Uniform Crime Reports, for an offense that constitutes a cybercrime against individuals.

DOJ must publish an annual summary of statistics related to cybercrimes against individuals.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6002 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6002

  To provide for the acquisition and publication of data relating to 
        cybercrimes against individuals, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 2016

  Ms. Clark of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the acquisition and publication of data relating to 
        cybercrimes against individuals, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Cybercrime Statistics Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL STRATEGY, CLASSIFICATION, AND REPORTING ON CYBERCRIME.

    (a) National Strategy.--The Attorney General shall develop a 
national strategy to reduce the incidence of cybercrimes against 
individuals, coordinate investigations of cybercrimes against 
individuals by Federal law enforcement agencies, and increase the 
number of Federal prosecutions of cybercrimes against individuals.
    (b) Classification of Cybercrimes Against Individuals for Purposes 
of Crime Reports.--Pursuant to authority under section 534 of title 28, 
United States Code, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
shall--
            (1) design and create within the Uniform Crime Reports a 
        category for offenses that constitute cybercrimes against 
        individuals;
            (2) to the extent feasible, within the category established 
        pursuant to paragraph (1), establish subcategories for each 
        type of cybercrime against an individual which is an offense 
        under Federal or State law;
            (3) classify the category established pursuant to paragraph 
        (1) as a Part 1 crime in the Uniform Crime Reports; and
            (4) classify each type of cybercrime against an individual 
        which is an offense under Federal or State law as a Group A 
        offense for the purpose of the National Incident-Based 
        Reporting System.
    (c) Annual Summary.--The Attorney General shall publish an annual 
summary of the information reported in the Uniform Crime Reports and 
the National Incident-Based Reporting System relating to cybercrimes 
against individuals.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) ) The term ``cybercrimes against individuals'' means 
        Federal, State, or local criminal offenses that involve the use 
        of a computer to cause personal harm to an individual, such as 
        the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, 
        coerce, cause fear, intimidate, without consent distribute 
        intimate images of, or violate the privacy of, an individual, 
        except that--
                    (A) use of a computer need not be an element of 
                such an offense; and
                    (B) such term does not include the use of a 
                computer to cause harm to a commercial entity, 
                government agency, or any non-natural persons.
            (2) The term ``computer'' includes a computer network and 
        any interactive electronic device.
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