What HMIS (Homeless Management Information Systems) related provisions are included in VAWA?
In VAWA Section 605, the U.S. Congress amended the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Program in VAWA to protect personally identifying information of victims. Domestic Violence Programs shall not provide identifying information about victims. VAWA 2005 prevents local victim service programs from providing personally identifying information about victims. It is U.S. Congress’ clear intent that encoding or scrambling personally identifying information does not make it subject to disclosure. New Rule Making. If HUD wants to mandate that victim services programs provide non-identifying client-level information, HUD must first create a new public notice and comment period. Non-Identifying Data. After notice and comment, HUD may request that victim service providers enter into HMIS non-identifying information such as aggregate totals, or other demographics that do not identify a victim. Since it is possible to identify many victims in rural states and small communities by nothing more than
