PRIVACY Act

(a) Semiannual reports. Beginning 180 days after the effective date of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate a report detailing for the previous 180-day period—

(1) the number of incidents in which Federal law enforcement agencies accessed, received, queried, directed, tasked, or otherwise obtained covered surveillance data;

(2) the number and nature of warrants obtained for the acquisition of such data, including the courts that issued such warrants, and the general categories of offenses for which the data was sought;

(3) the number of emergency exception uses under section 2(e)(1), including justifications and outcomes; and

(4) any instances in which a Federal law enforcement agency obtained covered surveillance data without a warrant in violation of subsection (b), or retained covered surveillance data lawfully obtained longer than permitted under paragraph (1), and any corrective actions taken by the agency.

(b) Agency reporting. The head of each Federal law enforcement agency that obtains covered surveillance data shall provide such information as is necessary to the Attorney General for purposes of the reports under subsection (a).

(c) Public summary. The Attorney General shall make an unclassified summary of each report publicly available.