Public Comments Requested on the Proposed Reinstatement and Update of BJS Data Collection: 2020 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Survey

BJS encourages comments for 60 days until May 12, 2020, on the proposed reinstatement and update of a previously approved data collection: 2020 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey. Your comments on BJS's request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the Federal Register, should address points such as—

• whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
• the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of data, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
• whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced
• the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.