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WARNING! DATA USE RESTRICTIONS
Read Carefully Before Using Data from NACJD
Federal law and regulations provide that research data or statistics collected by the U. S. Department of Justice or by its grantees and contractors may be used only for the purpose of statistical reporting and analysis, may not be used to identify private individuals, and is immune from use in legal proceedings. The applicable laws and regulations may be found in the United States Code, 42 USC Section 3789g(a), and the Code of Federal Regulations, 28 CFR 22.
Any effort to determine or release the identity of any private individual or identifying information about that individual contained in the data collections archived herein is a violation of Federal law and applicable Federal regulations.
The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data performs a number of procedures to ensure that the identity of research subjects cannot be disclosed. All direct identifiers are omitted from datasets as part of the process of preparing the data for public release. Sometimes, combinations of characteristics can be used to identify individuals. In that event, some of those characteristics are also recoded or masked to prevent identity disclosure. When disclosure is likely despite the application of these procedures, or when the application of these procedures would seriously reduce the value of the data, alternative procedures are available for obtaining the data from a restricted data collection archive. Any intentional identification or disclosure of a person or establishment violates the assurances of confidentiality given to the providers of the information. Therefore, users of the data in the NACJD will:
Use these datasets for statistical reporting and analysis only.
Make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently, and advise the Director of NACJD, of any such discovery.
Produce no links among NACJD datasets or between NACJD and other datasets that make possible the disclosure of individual identities of respondents or subjects.
