Warning on Use of Program Category

The Justice Department is now withholding program category information from the records of agency referrals which have not yet been acted upon. TRAC is currently contesting this practice.

This withholding only affects program catgegory information since April 2002. As a result, only incomplete data about referrals made according to program category are available for this recent period. Any extract based upon selecting program category will result in serious undercounts for this period.

For those matters that have been disposed of -- declined, prosecuted, dismissed, etc -- complete information about the program category has been released. Full information about new referrals, apart from program category, also is available when examined according to the agency making them. (See also withholding of lead charge.)


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