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F. Title VI: Grants, Studies, and Programs for Children and Community Safety

1. Subtitle A: Mentoring Matches for Youth Act - Mentoring Matches for Youth Act of 2006

(Sec. 603) Authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency to make grants in FY2007-FY2012 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to expand mentoring programs for at-risk youth. Requires Big Brothers Big Sisters to make biannual reports to the Administrator on such mentoring programs. Authorizes appropriations.

2.        Subtitle B: National Police Athletic League Youth Enrichment Act - National Police Athletic League Youth Enrichment Reauthorization Act of 2006 –

(Sec. 614) - Reauthorizes grant authority and appropriations through FY2010 for the National Police Athletic League Youth Enrichment program. Requires funds authorized for police athletic league programs to be used for character development and leadership training.

3.        Subtitle C: Grants, Studies, and Other Provisions –

(Sec. 621) Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants (referred to as Jessica Lunsford and Sarah Lunde Grants) for three years to states, local governments, and Indian tribal governments to outfit sex offenders with electric monitoring units. Requires the Attorney General to: (1) fund different approaches to monitoring to allow an assessment of the effectiveness of the program; and (2) report to Congress on the program by September 1, 2010.

(Sec. 622) Amends the federal criminal code to direct the Bureau of Prisons to provide sex offenders with sex offender management and residential sex offender treatment programs. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 623) Amends the OCCSSA to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to assist governments and private entities in enforcing sex offender registration requirements and in the treatment of juvenile sex offenders.

(Sec. 624) Directs the Attorney General to make grants to help prosecute cases cleared through use of DNA backlog clearance funds.

(Sec. 625) Authorizes the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to law enforcement agencies to combat sexual abuse of children. Directs the Attorney General to give priority to law enforcement agencies making a showing of need.

(Sec. 626) Amends the OCCSSA to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to private nonprofit entities to promote crime prevention through public outreach and media campaigns.

(Sec. 627) Directs the Attorney General to establish and implement a grant program for the voluntary fingerprinting of children. Limits the release of child fingerprint information to a parent or guardian of the child. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sections 628 - 639)

(G. Title VII: Internet Safety Act ...)

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