About the NICCC

Collateral consequences are scattered throughout state and federal statutory and regulatory codes and can be unknown even to those responsible for their administration and enforcement. There is often a lack of coordination in different sections of state and federal codes, which makes it difficult to identify all of the penalties and disabilities that may be triggered by a particular conviction.

In recognition of the rapid proliferation of collateral consequences and the increase in the number of people affected by them, the federal Court Security Improvement Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-177 § 510, 121 Stat. 2534, 2544) directed the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to collect and analyze the collateral consequences in place in each U.S. jurisdiction. In 2012, the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) began work on the National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction (NICCC), an online searchable database that identifies and categorizes the statutes and regulations that impose collateral consequences in all 50 states, the federal system, and the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Detailed information about the NICCC’s organization and usage can be found on the Help page of the site.

The NICCC is a part of the National Reentry Resource Center, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
 

The information available on the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction does not constitute legal advice and does not include judicial interpretations of statutory and regulatory language.

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