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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; New
Collection; Fourth National Incidence
Studies of Missing, Abducted,
Runaway and Thrownaway Children
(NISMART–4)
Office of Justice Programs,
Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Justice
(DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, will be submitting the
SUMMARY:
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following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until
January 7, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have additional comments
especially on the estimated public
burden or associated response time,
suggestions, or need a copy of the
proposed information collection
instrument with instructions or
additional information, please contact
Benjamin Adams, Social Science
Analyst, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, 810 Seventh
Street NW, Washington, DC 20531
(email: benjamin.adams@usdoj.gov;
telephone: 202–616–3687).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written
comments and suggestions from the
public and affected agencies concerning
the proposed collection of information
are encouraged. Your comments should
address one or more of the following
four points:
—Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
including whether the information
shall have practical utility;
—Evaluate whether the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden on the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions that
were used;
—Evaluate whether and if so how the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected can be
enhanced; and
—Minimize the burden of the collection
of information on those who are to
respond, including use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
1. Type of Information Collection:
New collection.
2. The Title of the Form/Collection:
Fourth National Incidence Studies of
Missing, Abducted, Runaway and
Thrownaway Children (NISMART–4).
3. The agency form number, if any,
and the applicable component of the
Department sponsoring the collection:
Not applicable (new collection).
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4. Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: State, county, and
local law enforcement agencies (LEAs),
state Missing Child Clearinghouses
(MCCs), and the National Center on
Missing and Exploited Children
(NCMEC). Abstract: The Fourth
National Incidence Studies of Missing,
Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway
Children (NISMART–4) will include
three pilot studies and one national data
collection. The three pilot studies will
test methodologies for collecting
information from law enforcement
agencies on child victims of stranger
abductions, parental abductions, and
other types of missing children,
respectively. The pilot test data will be
used solely to evaluate the effectiveness
of the proposed survey methodologies.
The national study will collect data on
the number and characteristics of
children abducted by strangers (i.e.,
‘‘stereotypical kidnappings’’). OJJDP
will use the information gathered in the
national study in published reports and
statistics. The reports will be made
available to the U.S. Congress, Executive
Office of the President, practitioners,
researchers, students, the media, others
interested in missing children statistics,
and the general public via the OJJDP
website.
5. An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond:
Burden Hours for Law Enforcement
Survey—Stereotypical Kidnappings
(LES–SK) Pilot: OJJDP expects 20 law
enforcement investigators to spend an
average of 40 minutes completing an
online case detail survey and 20
minutes completing the telephone
debriefing about the online survey (20 ×
60 minutes = 20 hours). In addition,
OJJDP expects the NCMEC database
administrator to spend 5 hours pulling
20 stereotypical kidnappings cases from
the NCMEC database for use in testing
the online survey (1 × 5 hours = 5
hours). The total amount of time for the
LES–SK pilot is 25 hours.
Burden Hours for Law Enforcement
Survey—Family Abductions (LES–FA)
Pilot: The sample size for Components
1 and 2 of the pilot is 30 law
enforcement investigators who will be
asked to search their database for cases
of family abductions occurring in a 1year period. OJJDP estimates the search
will take an average of 3 hours and that
28 will comply (28 × 3 hours = 84
hours), 2 will decline (2 × 3 minutes =
6 minutes). OJJDP estimates that
database administrators for NCMEC and
the MCCs associated with states in the
sample will all agree to conduct
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database searches for the agencies in
Component 1 and Component 2 and that
these searches will take an average of 3
hours (31 × 4 hours = 124 hours). OJJDP
estimates that all 5 agencies selected for
telephone debriefing in Component 1
will participate and the interviews will
take an average of 20 minutes to
complete (5 × 20 minutes = 1.67 hours).
OJJDP expects that all 10 of the law
enforcement investigators selected to
complete the Component 3 case detail
telephone survey will participate and
that the interview will take 30 minutes
(10 × 30 minutes = 5 hours). OJJDP
estimates that 18 of the 20 investigators
selected to complete the Component 3
case detail online survey will comply
and that the instrument will take an
average of 15 minutes (18 × 15 minutes
= 4.5 hours), 2 will decline (2 × 3
minutes = 6 minutes). OJJDP expects
that all 18 investigators who complete
the online survey will agree to
participate in the 20 minute debriefing
telephone interview (18 × 20 minutes =
6 hours). The total amount of time for
the LES–FA pilot is 225.4 hours.
Burden Hours for Law Enforcement
Survey—Missing Children (LES–MC)
Pilot: The sample size for Components
1 and 2 of the pilot is 30 law
enforcement investigators who will be
asked to search for case of missing
children occurring in a 1-month period.
OJJDP estimates the search will take an
average of 3 hours and that 28 will
comply (28 × 3 hours = 84 hours), 2 will
decline (2 × 3 minutes = 6 minutes).
OJJDP estimates that database
administrators for NCMEC and the
MCCs associated with states in the
sample will all agree to conduct
database searches and that these
searches will take an average of 4 hours
(31 × 4 hours = 124 hours). OJJDP
estimates that all five agencies selected
for telephone debriefing in Component
1 will participate and the interviews
will take an average of 20 minutes to
complete (5 × 20 minutes = 1.67 hours).
OJJDP expects that all 10 of the law
enforcement investigators selected to
complete the Component 3 case detail
telephone survey will participate and
that the interview will take 30 minutes
(10 × 30 minutes = 5 hours). OJJDP
estimates that 18 of the 20 investigators
selected to complete the Component 3
case detail online survey will comply
and that the instrument will take an
average of 15 minutes (18 × 15 minutes
= 4.5 hours), 2 will decline (2 × 3
minutes = 6 minutes). OJJDP expects
that all 18 investigators who complete
the online survey will agree to
participate in the 20 minute debriefing
telephone interview (18 × 20 minutes =
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6 hours). The total amount of time for
the LES–MC pilot is 225.4 hours.
Burden Hours for National Law
Enforcement Survey—Stereotypical
Kidnappings (LES–SK): A total of 4,727
law enforcement agencies are included
in the national stratified cluster sample
of 400 PSUs (Primary Sampling Units).
All of these agencies will receive the
mail screener. OJJDP estimates that
2,836 (60 percent) of the law
enforcement agencies will complete the
screener by mail, based on the response
rate for the mail screener obtained for
NISMART–3. The great majority of these
will have no stereotypical kidnapping
cases during the 1-year timeframe of the
survey and OJJDP estimates the average
time to complete the mail screener to be
15 minutes (2,836 × 15 minutes = 709.05
hours), 1,891 will not respond by mail
(1,891 × 3 minutes = 94.54 hours).
OJJDP estimates that 1,229 (26 percent)
of the law enforcement agencies will
complete the mail screener by
telephone, based on the percentage of
mail screeners completed by telephone
in NIMSART–3. OJJDP estimates that
the time to complete the screener by
telephone will be 4 minutes (1,229 × 4
minutes = 81.9 hours), and 662 will not
respond (662 × 3 minutes = 33.1 hours).
OJJDP estimates that 204 cases will be
identified that appear to meet the
definition of a qualifying stereotypical
kidnapping case. The estimate is based
on the number of cases identified in
NISMART–3 for telephone followup
from the mail screener and searches of
other databases. Investigators of these
cases will be asked to complete the
online survey about case details. OJJDP
estimates that 161 (79 percent) of the
law enforcement officers will complete
the case detail online instrument
(estimate again based on the percentage
of investigators who completed this
component for NISMART–3) with 145
(90 percent) completing online. OJJDP
estimates that the instrument will take
an average of 40 minutes to complete
(145 × 40 minutes = 96.6 hours), 59 will
not respond online (59 × 3 minutes =
2.95 hours). OJJDP estimates that 16 (10
percent) of the 161 law enforcement
officers who complete the detailed case
survey will do it via telephone
interview and that the interview will
take 60 minutes (16 × 60 minutes = 16
hours), and that 43 will not respond (43
× 3 minutes = 2.15 hours). OJJDP
estimates the time for NCMEC and state
MCCs database administrators to
conduct a database search of any
stereotypical kidnapping cases in their
states to be 4 hours and expect that all
NCMEC and the state MCCs in the 49
states where the sampled PSUs are
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located will participate (50 × 4 hour =
200 hours). The total amount of time for
the National LES–SK study is 1,236.5
hours.
6. An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: There are an estimated 1,712
total burden hours (1,259 hours for law
enforcement investigators and 453 hours
for NCMEC and MCC database
administrators) associated with the
three pilot studies and the national
LES–SK study.
If additional information is required
contact: Melody Braswell, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Two Constitution
Square, 145 N Street NE, 3E.405A,
Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: November 2, 2018.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of Justice Programs
[OMB Number 1121-NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; New Collection; Fourth National Incidence Studies
of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-4)
AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs,
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, will be
submitting the following information collection request to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until
January 7, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have additional comments
especially on the estimated public burden or associated response time,
suggestions, or need a copy of the proposed information collection
instrument with instructions or additional information, please contact
Benjamin Adams, Social Science Analyst, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, 810 Seventh Street NW, Washington, DC 20531
(email: [email protected]; telephone: 202-616-3687).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments and suggestions from the
public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of
the following four points:
--Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention, including whether the information
shall have practical utility;
--Evaluate whether the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
on the proposed collection of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions that were used;
--Evaluate whether and if so how the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information collected can be enhanced; and
--Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information Collection
1. Type of Information Collection: New collection.
2. The Title of the Form/Collection: Fourth National Incidence
Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-
4).
3. The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of
the Department sponsoring the collection: Not applicable (new
collection).
4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: Primary: State, county, and local law
enforcement agencies (LEAs), state Missing Child Clearinghouses (MCCs),
and the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Abstract: The Fourth National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted,
Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-4) will include three pilot
studies and one national data collection. The three pilot studies will
test methodologies for collecting information from law enforcement
agencies on child victims of stranger abductions, parental abductions,
and other types of missing children, respectively. The pilot test data
will be used solely to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed
survey methodologies. The national study will collect data on the
number and characteristics of children abducted by strangers (i.e.,
``stereotypical kidnappings''). OJJDP will use the information gathered
in the national study in published reports and statistics. The reports
will be made available to the U.S. Congress, Executive Office of the
President, practitioners, researchers, students, the media, others
interested in missing children statistics, and the general public via
the OJJDP website.
5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of
time estimated for an average respondent to respond:
Burden Hours for Law Enforcement Survey--Stereotypical Kidnappings
(LES-SK) Pilot: OJJDP expects 20 law enforcement investigators to spend
an average of 40 minutes completing an online case detail survey and 20
minutes completing the telephone debriefing about the online survey (20
x 60 minutes = 20 hours). In addition, OJJDP expects the NCMEC database
administrator to spend 5 hours pulling 20 stereotypical kidnappings
cases from the NCMEC database for use in testing the online survey (1 x
5 hours = 5 hours). The total amount of time for the LES-SK pilot is 25
hours.
Burden Hours for Law Enforcement Survey--Family Abductions (LES-FA)
Pilot: The sample size for Components 1 and 2 of the pilot is 30 law
enforcement investigators who will be asked to search their database
for cases of family abductions occurring in a 1-year period. OJJDP
estimates the search will take an average of 3 hours and that 28 will
comply (28 x 3 hours = 84 hours), 2 will decline (2 x 3 minutes = 6
minutes). OJJDP estimates that database administrators for NCMEC and
the MCCs associated with states in the sample will all agree to conduct
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database searches for the agencies in Component 1 and Component 2 and
that these searches will take an average of 3 hours (31 x 4 hours = 124
hours). OJJDP estimates that all 5 agencies selected for telephone
debriefing in Component 1 will participate and the interviews will take
an average of 20 minutes to complete (5 x 20 minutes = 1.67 hours).
OJJDP expects that all 10 of the law enforcement investigators selected
to complete the Component 3 case detail telephone survey will
participate and that the interview will take 30 minutes (10 x 30
minutes = 5 hours). OJJDP estimates that 18 of the 20 investigators
selected to complete the Component 3 case detail online survey will
comply and that the instrument will take an average of 15 minutes (18 x
15 minutes = 4.5 hours), 2 will decline (2 x 3 minutes = 6 minutes).
OJJDP expects that all 18 investigators who complete the online survey
will agree to participate in the 20 minute debriefing telephone
interview (18 x 20 minutes = 6 hours). The total amount of time for the
LES-FA pilot is 225.4 hours.
Burden Hours for Law Enforcement Survey--Missing Children (LES-MC)
Pilot: The sample size for Components 1 and 2 of the pilot is 30 law
enforcement investigators who will be asked to search for case of
missing children occurring in a 1-month period. OJJDP estimates the
search will take an average of 3 hours and that 28 will comply (28 x 3
hours = 84 hours), 2 will decline (2 x 3 minutes = 6 minutes). OJJDP
estimates that database administrators for NCMEC and the MCCs
associated with states in the sample will all agree to conduct database
searches and that these searches will take an average of 4 hours (31 x
4 hours = 124 hours). OJJDP estimates that all five agencies selected
for telephone debriefing in Component 1 will participate and the
interviews will take an average of 20 minutes to complete (5 x 20
minutes = 1.67 hours). OJJDP expects that all 10 of the law enforcement
investigators selected to complete the Component 3 case detail
telephone survey will participate and that the interview will take 30
minutes (10 x 30 minutes = 5 hours). OJJDP estimates that 18 of the 20
investigators selected to complete the Component 3 case detail online
survey will comply and that the instrument will take an average of 15
minutes (18 x 15 minutes = 4.5 hours), 2 will decline (2 x 3 minutes =
6 minutes). OJJDP expects that all 18 investigators who complete the
online survey will agree to participate in the 20 minute debriefing
telephone interview (18 x 20 minutes = 6 hours). The total amount of
time for the LES-MC pilot is 225.4 hours.
Burden Hours for National Law Enforcement Survey--Stereotypical
Kidnappings (LES-SK): A total of 4,727 law enforcement agencies are
included in the national stratified cluster sample of 400 PSUs (Primary
Sampling Units). All of these agencies will receive the mail screener.
OJJDP estimates that 2,836 (60 percent) of the law enforcement agencies
will complete the screener by mail, based on the response rate for the
mail screener obtained for NISMART-3. The great majority of these will
have no stereotypical kidnapping cases during the 1-year timeframe of
the survey and OJJDP estimates the average time to complete the mail
screener to be 15 minutes (2,836 x 15 minutes = 709.05 hours), 1,891
will not respond by mail (1,891 x 3 minutes = 94.54 hours). OJJDP
estimates that 1,229 (26 percent) of the law enforcement agencies will
complete the mail screener by telephone, based on the percentage of
mail screeners completed by telephone in NIMSART-3. OJJDP estimates
that the time to complete the screener by telephone will be 4 minutes
(1,229 x 4 minutes = 81.9 hours), and 662 will not respond (662 x 3
minutes = 33.1 hours). OJJDP estimates that 204 cases will be
identified that appear to meet the definition of a qualifying
stereotypical kidnapping case. The estimate is based on the number of
cases identified in NISMART-3 for telephone followup from the mail
screener and searches of other databases. Investigators of these cases
will be asked to complete the online survey about case details. OJJDP
estimates that 161 (79 percent) of the law enforcement officers will
complete the case detail online instrument (estimate again based on the
percentage of investigators who completed this component for NISMART-3)
with 145 (90 percent) completing online. OJJDP estimates that the
instrument will take an average of 40 minutes to complete (145 x 40
minutes = 96.6 hours), 59 will not respond online (59 x 3 minutes =
2.95 hours). OJJDP estimates that 16 (10 percent) of the 161 law
enforcement officers who complete the detailed case survey will do it
via telephone interview and that the interview will take 60 minutes (16
x 60 minutes = 16 hours), and that 43 will not respond (43 x 3 minutes
= 2.15 hours). OJJDP estimates the time for NCMEC and state MCCs
database administrators to conduct a database search of any
stereotypical kidnapping cases in their states to be 4 hours and expect
that all NCMEC and the state MCCs in the 49 states where the sampled
PSUs are located will participate (50 x 4 hour = 200 hours). The total
amount of time for the National LES-SK study is 1,236.5 hours.
6. An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: There are an estimated 1,712 total burden hours
(1,259 hours for law enforcement investigators and 453 hours for NCMEC
and MCC database administrators) associated with the three pilot
studies and the national LES-SK study.
If additional information is required contact: Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice,
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 3E.405A, Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: November 2, 2018.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
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