(4) procurement and contracting planning, 
practices and policies; 
(5) the extent to which the Board follows lead-
ing practices in selected management areas; and 
(6) the extent to which the Board addresses 
management challenges in completing incident inves-
tigations. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 
For purposes of this section the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means the Committee on the Judi-
ciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 15. DISCOVERY AND USE OF RECORDINGS AND TRAN-
SCRIPTS. 
(a) TRANSCRIPTS AND RECORDINGS.— 
(1) Except as provided by this subsection, a 
party in a judicial proceeding may not use discovery 
to obtain any part of a recording from a body cam-
era used by a law enforcement officer or a vehicle- 
mounted camera. 
(2)(A) Except as otherwise provided in this sub-
section, a court may allow discovery by a party of 
a recording if the court determines that discovery of 
the recording is necessary to provide the party with 
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sufficient information for the party to receive a fair 
trial. 
(B) A court may allow discovery, or require 
production for an in camera review, of a transcript 
of a recording only if the recording is not available. 
(3)(A) When a court allows discovery in a judi-
cial proceeding of a part of a transcript or recording 
not otherwise made available to the public the court 
shall issue a protective order— 
(i) to limit the use of the part of the tran-
script or the recording to the judicial pro-
ceeding; and 
(ii) to prohibit dissemination of the part of 
the transcript or the recording to any person 
that does not need access to the part of the 
transcript or the recording for the proceeding. 
(B) A court may allow a part of a transcript or 
recording to be admitted into evidence in a judicial 
proceeding, only if the court places the part of the 
transcript or the recording under seal to prevent the 
use of the part of the transcript or the recording for 
purposes other than for the proceeding. 
(4) This subsection does not prevent the Board 
from referring at any time to a recording in making 
safety recommendations. 
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(5) In this subsection: 
(A) RECORDER.—The term ‘‘recorder’’ 
means a voice or video recorder. 
(B) TRANSCRIPT.—The term ‘‘transcript’’ 
includes any written depiction of visual infor-
mation obtained from a video recorder. 
(b) REPORTS.—No part of a report of the Board, re-
lated to an incident or an investigation of an incident, may 
be admitted into evidence or used in a civil action for dam-
ages resulting from a matter mentioned in the report. 
SEC. 16. ENFORCEMENT. 
At any time, the Department of Justice Civil Rights 
Divisions can open a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation, 
citing the lack of progress on the implementation of rec-
ommendations by a recipient as possible evidence of a sys-
tematic pattern of abuse, and take direct enforcement ac-
tion if needed. 
SEC. 17. GRANT ELIGIBILITY. 
(a) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.—For each fiscal year 
after the expiration of the period specified in subsection 
(d) in which a State or unit of local government receives 
a grant under part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et 
seq.), the State or unit of local government shall conform 
their laws as follows: 
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(1) Any findings or recommendations issued by 
the Board will be admissible in criminal or civil 
court procedures regarding an incident of violence by 
a law enforcement officer. 
(2) If prosecution or a civil case moves forward 
against the police officer or officers in question, the 
findings of the Board may be presented to the jury. 
(3) Additionally, any police department, locality 
or state government that has received reform rec-
ommendations from the Board shall submit a report 
to the Board and to Congress one calendar year 
later detailing the actions it has taken on the mat-
ter, and will continue to report yearly so long as any 
recommendations remain open. 
(b) COMPLIANCE AND INELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE DATE.—Beginning on the first 
full fiscal year after the date of enactment of this 
Act, each State or unit of local government referred 
to in subsection (a) receiving a grant shall comply 
with subsection (a), except that the Attorney Gen-
eral may grant an additional 60 days to a State or 
unit of local government that is making good faith 
efforts to comply with such subsection. 
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.—For any fiscal 
year after the expiration of the period specified in 
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paragraph (1), a State or unit of local government 
that fails to comply with subsection (a), shall, at the 
discretion of the Attorney General, be subject to a 
reduction of the funds that would otherwise be allo-
cated for that fiscal year to the State under subpart 
1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et 
seq.), whether characterized as the Edward Byrne 
Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assist-
ance Programs, the Local Government Law Enforce-
ment Block Grants Program, the Edward Byrne Me-
morial Justice Assistance Grant Program, or other-
wise of not less than 1 percent and not more than 
10 percent. 
(c) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated under a 
program referred to in subsection (b)(2) to a State for 
failure to fully comply with subsection (a) shall be reallo-
cated under that program to States that have not failed 
to comply with such subsection. 
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