                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
    CHAPTER 119--WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND 
                   INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
 
Sec. 2519. Reports concerning intercepted wire, oral, or 
        electronic communications
        
    (1) Within thirty days after the expiration of an order (or each 
extension thereof) entered under section 2518, or the denial of an order 
approving an interception, the issuing or denying judge shall report to 
the Administrative Office of the United States Courts--
        (a) the fact that an order or extension was applied for;
        (b) the kind of order or extension applied for (including 
    whether or not the order was an order with respect to which the 
    requirements of sections 2518(1)(b)(ii) and 2518(3)(d) of this title 
    did not apply by reason of section 2518(11) of this title);
        (c) the fact that the order or extension was granted as applied 
    for, was modified, or was denied;
        (d) the period of interceptions authorized by the order, and the 
    number and duration of any extensions of the order;
        (e) the offense specified in the order or application, or 
    extension of an order;
        (f) the identity of the applying investigative or law 
    enforcement officer and agency making the application and the person 
    authorizing the application; and
        (g) the nature of the facilities from which or the place where 
    communications were to be intercepted.

    (2) In January of each year the Attorney General, an Assistant 
Attorney General specially designated by the Attorney General, or the 
principal prosecuting attorney of a State, or the principal prosecuting 
attorney for any political subdivision of a State, shall report to the 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts--
        (a) the information required by paragraphs (a) through (g) of 
    subsection (1) of this section with respect to each application for 
    an order or extension made during the preceding calendar year;
        (b) a general description of the interceptions made under such 
    order or extension, including (i) the approximate nature and 
    frequency of incriminating communications intercepted, (ii) the 
    approximate nature and frequency of other communications 
    intercepted, (iii) the approximate number of persons whose 
    communications were intercepted, (iv) the number of orders in which 
    encryption was encountered and whether such encryption prevented law 
    enforcement from obtaining the plain text of communications 
    intercepted pursuant to such order, and (v) the approximate nature, 
    amount, and cost of the manpower and other resources used in the 
    interceptions;
        (c) the number of arrests resulting from interceptions made 
    under such order or extension, and the offenses for which arrests 
    were made;
        (d) the number of trials resulting from such interceptions;
        (e) the number of motions to suppress made with respect to such 
    interceptions, and the number granted or denied;
        (f) the number of convictions resulting from such interceptions 
    and the offenses for which the convictions were obtained and a 
    general assessment of the importance of the interceptions; and
        (g) the information required by paragraphs (b) through (f) of 
    this subsection with respect to orders or extensions obtained in a 
    preceding calendar year.

    (3) In April of each year the Director of the Administrative Office 
of the United States Courts shall transmit to the Congress a full and 
complete report concerning the number of applications for orders 
authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral, or electronic 
communications pursuant to this chapter and the number of orders and 
extensions granted or denied pursuant to this chapter during the 
preceding calendar year. Such report shall include a summary and 
analysis of the data required to be filed with the Administrative Office 
by subsections (1) and (2) of this section. The Director of the 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts is authorized to issue 
binding regulations dealing with the content and form of the reports 
required to be filed by subsections (1) and (2) of this section.

(Added Pub. L. 90-351, title III, Sec. 802, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 222; 
amended Pub. L. 95-511, title II, Sec. 201(h), Oct. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 
1798; Pub. L. 99-508, title I, Secs. 101(c)(1)(A), 106(d)(4), Oct. 21, 
1986, 100 Stat. 1851, 1857; Pub. L. 106-197, Sec. 2(a), May 2, 2000, 114 
Stat. 247.)


                               Amendments

    2000--Par. (2)(b)(iv), (v). Pub. L. 106-197 added cl. (iv) and 
redesignated former cl. (iv) as (v).
    1986--Pub. L. 99-508, Sec. 101(c)(1)(A), substituted ``wire, oral, 
or electronic'' for ``wire or oral'' in section catchline.
    Par. (1)(b). Pub. L. 99-508, Sec. 106(d)(4), inserted ``(including 
whether or not the order was an order with respect to which the 
requirements of sections 2518(1)(b)(ii) and 2518(3)(d) of this title did 
not apply by reason of section 2518(11) of this title)''.
    Par. (3). Pub. L. 99-508, Sec. 101(c)(1)(A), substituted ``wire, 
oral, or electronic'' for ``wire or oral''.
    1978--Par. (3). Pub. L. 95-511 inserted ``pursuant to this chapter'' 
after ``wire or oral communications'' and ``granted or denied''.


                    Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 99-508 effective 90 days after Oct. 21, 1986, 
and, in case of conduct pursuant to court order or extension, applicable 
only with respect to court orders and extensions made after such date, 
with special rule for State authorizations of interceptions, see section 
111 of Pub. L. 99-508, set out as a note under section 2510 of this 
title.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-511 effective Oct. 25, 1978, except as 
specifically provided, see section 401 of Pub. L. 95-511, set out as an 
Effective Date note under section 1801 of Title 50, War and National 
Defense.


                    Encryption Reporting Requirements

    Pub. L. 106-197, Sec. 2(b), May 2, 2000, 114 Stat. 247, provided 
that: ``The encryption reporting requirement in subsection (a) [amending 
this section] shall be effective for the report transmitted by the 
Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts for calendar year 
2000 and in subsequent reports.''
