With a grant from the National Institute for Justice as a provision of the Court Security Improvement Act, the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section created the ABA National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction (NICCC) an online catalog of over 45,000 federal and state statutes and regulations that impose collateral consequences on persons convicted of crimes.
The searchable database categorizes collateral-consequence laws by jurisdiction, the area of life affected, the type of offense, and whether the law applies automatically or at the discretion of a government agent. This database can be used to help defense attorneys provide more informed counsel to clients and to inform charging and plea offer decisions of prosecutors. It also provides lawmakers, advocacy groups and the public with accurate information about the scope of collateral consequences.
