“To amend the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 to include identity theft in the grant program related to local law enforcement grants for enforcement of cybercrimes, and for other purposes.”
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This section defines "identity theft" as a criminal offense applicable in the relevant jurisdiction that involves knowingly transferring, possessing, or using, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person, and expands the grant program to authorize Attorney General grants to states, Indian Tribes, and units of local government for the prevention, enforcement, and prosecution of identity theft (in addition to cybercrimes against individuals). (As background, the program supports local law enforcement addressing computer-based offenses against individuals, such as harassment, threats, stalking, extortion, coercion, intimidation, or nonconsensual distribution of intimate adult images.)