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This bill, the Compassionate Assault Response and Empathy Act of 2024, aims to expand trauma-informed training for law enforcement personnel related to sexual assault cases. The key provisions include: 1) Authorizing the Secretary to award grants to state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies to establish and expand training that increases understanding of the impact of trauma on sexual assault victims and develops strategies for trauma-informed responses. 2) Requiring the training to be trauma-informed, evidence-based, and victim-centered, focusing on how contact with law enforcement can retraumatize victims and how officers can best support them. 3) Mandating that law enforcement academy trainees receive at least 8 hours of this training, and all other officers receive at least 4 hours annually. 4) Directing the Secretary to maintain and make publicly available a listing of trainers who provide the required training, searchable by geographic area and professional background. 5) Requiring grant recipients to strive for diversity among their trainers in terms of professional backgrounds and racial, ethnic, and gender representation. 6) Requiring the Secretary to collect data and submit annual reports to Congress on the grant program's effectiveness in improving trauma-informed training for law enforcement.

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