(1) $25,000,000 for additional expenses relat-
ing to the enforcement of section 210401 of the Vio-
lent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 
1994 (34 U.S.C. 12601), criminal enforcement 
under sections 241 and 242 of title 18, United 
States Code, and administrative enforcement by the 
Department of Justice of such sections, including 
compliance with consent decrees or judgments en-
tered into under such section 210401; and 
(2) $3,300,000 for additional expenses related 
to conflict resolution by the Department of Justice’s 
Community Relations Service. 
SEC. 117. NATIONAL TASK FORCE ON LAW ENFORCEMENT 
OVERSIGHT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within 
the Department of Justice a task force to be known as 
the Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight (herein-
after in this section referred to as the ‘‘Task Force’’). 
(b) COMPOSITION.—The Task Force shall be com-
posed of individuals appointed by the Attorney General, 
who shall appoint not less than 1 individual from each of 
the following: 
(1) The Special Litigation Section of the Civil 
Rights Division. 
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(2) The Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Di-
vision. 
(3) The Federal Coordination and Compliance 
Section of the Civil Rights Division. 
(4) The Employment Litigation Section of the 
Civil Rights Division. 
(5) The Disability Rights Section of the Civil 
Rights Division. 
(6) The Office of Justice Programs. 
(7) The Office of Community Oriented Policing 
Services (COPS). 
(8) The Corruption/Civil Rights Section of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(9) The Community Relations Service. 
(10) The Office of Tribal Justice. 
(11) The unit within the Department of Justice 
assigned as a liaison for civilian review boards. 
(c) POWERS AND DUTIES.—The Task Force shall 
consult with professional law enforcement associations, 
labor organizations, and community-based organizations 
to coordinate the process of the detection and referral of 
complaints regarding incidents of alleged law enforcement 
misconduct. 
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(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each fis-
cal year to carry out this section. 
SEC. 118. FEDERAL DATA COLLECTION ON LAW ENFORCE-
MENT PRACTICES. 
(a) AGENCIES TO REPORT.—Each Federal, State, 
Tribal, and local law enforcement agency shall report data 
of the practices enumerated in subsection (c) of that agen-
cy to the Attorney General. 
(b) BREAKDOWN OF INFORMATION BY RACE, ETH-
NICITY, AND GENDER.—For each practice enumerated in 
subsection (c), the reporting law enforcement agency shall 
provide a breakdown of the numbers of incidents of that 
practice by race, ethnicity, age, and gender of the officers 
of the agency and of members of the public involved in 
the practice. 
(c) PRACTICES TO BE REPORTED ON.—The prac-
tices to be reported on are the following: 
(1) Traffic violation stops. 
(2) Pedestrian stops. 
(3) Frisk and body searches. 
(4) Instances where law enforcement officers 
used deadly force, including— 
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(A) a description of when and where dead-
ly force was used, and whether it resulted in 
death; 
(B) a description of deadly force directed 
against an officer and whether it resulted in in-
jury or death; and 
(C) the law enforcement agency’s justifica-
tion for use of deadly force, if the agency deter-
mines it was justified. 
(d) RETENTION OF DATA.—Each law enforcement 
agency required to report data under this section shall 
maintain records relating to any matter reported for not 
less than 4 years after those records are created. 
(e) PENALTY FOR STATES FAILING TO REPORT AS 
REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For any fiscal year, a State 
shall not receive any amount that would otherwise 
be allocated to that State under section 505(a) of 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156(a)), or any 
amount from any other law enforcement assistance 
program of the Department of Justice, unless the 
State has ensured, to the satisfaction of the Attor-
ney General, that the State and each local law en-
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forcement agency of the State is in substantial com-
pliance with the requirements of this section. 
(2) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated by 
reason of this subsection shall be reallocated to 
States not disqualified by failure to comply with this 
section. 
(f) REGULATIONS.—The Attorney General shall pre-
scribe regulations to carry out this section. 
TITLE 
II—POLICING 
TRANS-
PARENCY THROUGH DATA 
Subtitle A—National Police 
Misconduct Registry 
SEC. 201. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL POLICE MIS-
CONDUCT REGISTRY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 
establish a National Police Misconduct Registry to be com-
piled and maintained by the Department of Justice. 
(b) CONTENTS
OF REGISTRY.—The Registry re-
quired to be established under subsection (a) shall contain 
the following data with respect to all Federal and local 
law enforcement officers: 
(1) Each complaint filed against a law enforce-
ment officer, aggregated by— 
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(A) complaints that were found to be cred-
ible or that resulted in disciplinary action 
against 
the 
law 
enforcement 
officer, 
disaggregated by whether the complaint in-
volved a use of force or racial profiling (as such 
term is defined in section 302); 
(B) complaints that are pending review, 
disaggregated by whether the complaint in-
volved a use of force or racial profiling; and 
(C) complaints for which the law enforce-
ment officer was exonerated or that were deter-
mined to be unfounded or not sustained, 
disaggregated by whether the complaint in-
volved a use of force or racial profiling. 
(2) Discipline records, disaggregated by wheth-
er the complaint involved a use of force or racial 
profiling. 
(3) Termination records, the reason for each 
termination, disaggregated by whether the complaint 
involved a use of force or racial profiling. 
(4) Records of certification in accordance with 
section 202. 
(5) Records of lawsuits against law enforcement 
officers and settlements of such lawsuits. 
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(6) Instances where a law enforcement officer 
resigns or retires while under active investigation re-
lated to the use of force. 
(c) 
FEDERAL
AGENCY
REPORTING
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, and every 6 months thereafter, the head 
of each Federal law enforcement agency shall submit to 
the Attorney General the information described in sub-
section (b). 
(d) STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Beginning in the first fis-
cal year that begins after the date that is one year after 
the date of enactment of this Act and each fiscal year 
thereafter in which a State receives funds under the Byrne 
grant program, the State shall, once every 180 days, sub-
mit to the Attorney General the information described in 
subsection (b) for the State and each local law enforce-
ment agency within the State. 
(e) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF REGISTRY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In establishing the Registry 
required under subsection (a), the Attorney General 
shall make the Registry available to the public on an 
internet website of the Attorney General in a man-
ner that allows members of the public to search for 
an individual law enforcement officer’s records of 
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misconduct, as described in subsection (b), involving 
a use of force or racial profiling. 
(2) PRIVACY
PROTECTIONS.—Nothing in this 
subsection shall be construed to supersede the re-
quirements or limitations under section 552a of title 
5, United States Code (commonly known as the 
‘‘Privacy Act of 1974’’). 
SEC. 202. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR HIRING OF 
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning in the first fiscal year 
that begins after the date that is one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, a State or unit of local gov-
ernment, other than an Indian Tribe, may not receive 
funds under the Byrne grant program for that fiscal year 
if, on the day before the first day of the fiscal year, the 
State or unit of local government has not— 
(1) submitted to the Attorney General evidence 
that the State or unit of local government has a cer-
tification and decertification program for purposes 
of employment as a law enforcement officer in that 
State or unit of local government that is consistent 
with the rules made under subsection (c); and 
(2) submitted to the National Police Mis-
conduct Registry established under section 201 
records demonstrating that all law enforcement offi-
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cers of the State or unit of local government have 
completed all State certification requirements during 
the 1-year period preceding the fiscal year. 
(b) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—The Attorney 
General shall make available to law enforcement agencies 
all information in the registry under section 201 for pur-
poses of compliance with the certification and decertifica-
tion programs described in subsection (a)(1) and consid-
ering applications for employment. 
(c) RULES.—The Attorney General shall make rules 
to carry out this section and section 201, including uni-
form reporting standards. 
Subtitle B—PRIDE Act 
SEC. 221. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Police Reporting 
Information, Data, and Evidence Act of 2025’’ or the 
‘‘PRIDE Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 222. DEFINITIONS. 
In this subtitle: 
(1) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘local educational agency’’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.—The 
term ‘‘local law enforcement officer’’ has the mean-
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ing given the term in section 2, and includes a 
school resource officer. 
(3) SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘school’’ means an ele-
mentary school or secondary school (as those terms 
are defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7801)). 
(4) SCHOOL
RESOURCE
OFFICER.—The term 
‘‘school resource officer’’ means a sworn law enforce-
ment officer who is— 
(A) assigned by the employing law enforce-
ment agency to a local educational agency or 
school; 
(B) contracting with a local educational 
agency or school; or 
(C) employed by a local educational agency 
or school. 
SEC. 223. USE OF FORCE REPORTING. 
(a) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning in the first fiscal 
year that begins after the date that is one year after 
the date of enactment of this Act and each fiscal 
year thereafter in which a State or Indian Tribe re-
ceives funds under a Byrne grant program, the 
State or Indian Tribe shall— 
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(A) report to the Attorney General, on a 
quarterly basis and pursuant to guidelines es-
tablished by the Attorney General, information 
regarding— 
(i) any incident involving the use of 
deadly force against a civilian by— 
(I) a local law enforcement offi-
cer who is employed by the State or 
by a unit of local government in the 
State; or 
(II) a tribal law enforcement offi-
cer who is employed by the Indian 
Tribe; 
(ii) any incident involving the shooting 
of a local law enforcement officer or tribal 
law enforcement officer described in clause 
(i) by a civilian; 
(iii) any incident involving the death 
or arrest of a local law enforcement officer 
or tribal law enforcement officer; 
(iv) any incident during which use of 
force by or against a local law enforcement 
officer or tribal law enforcement officer de-
scribed in clause (i) occurs, which is not 
reported under clause (i), (ii), or (iii); 
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(v) deaths in custody; and 
(vi) uses of force in arrests and book-
ing; 
(B) establish a system and a set of policies 
to ensure that all use of force incidents are re-
ported by local law enforcement officers or trib-
al law enforcement officers; and 
(C) submit to the Attorney General a plan 
for the collection of data required to be re-
ported under this section, including any modi-
fications to a previously submitted data collec-
tion plan. 
(2) REPORT INFORMATION REQUIRED.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The report required 
under paragraph (1)(A) shall contain informa-
tion that includes, at a minimum— 
(i) the national origin, sex, race, eth-
nicity, age, disability, English language 
proficiency, and housing status of each ci-
vilian against whom a local law enforce-
ment officer or tribal law enforcement offi-
cer used force; 
(ii) the date, time, and location, in-
cluding whether it was on school grounds, 
and the zip code, of the incident and 
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whether the jurisdiction in which the inci-
dent occurred allows for the open-carry or 
concealed-carry of a firearm; 
(iii) whether the civilian was armed, 
and, if so, the type of weapon the civilian 
had; 
(iv) the type of force used against the 
officer, the civilian, or both, including the 
types of weapons used; 
(v) the reason force was used; 
(vi) a description of any injuries sus-
tained as a result of the incident; 
(vii) the number of officers involved in 
the incident; 
(viii) the number of civilians involved 
in the incident; and 
(ix) a brief description regarding the 
circumstances surrounding the incident, 
which shall include information on— 
(I) the type of force used by all 
involved persons; 
(II) the legitimate police objective 
necessitating the use of force; 
(III) the resistance encountered 
by each local law enforcement officer 
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or tribal law enforcement officer in-
volved in the incident; 
(IV) the efforts by local law en-
forcement officers or tribal law en-
forcement officers to— 
(aa) de-escalate the situation 
in order to avoid the use of force; 
or 
(bb) minimize the level of 
force used; and 
(V) if applicable, the reason why 
efforts described in subclause (IV) 
were not attempted. 
(B) INCIDENTS REPORTED UNDER DEATH 
IN CUSTODY REPORTING ACT.—A State or In-
dian Tribe is not required to include in a report 
under subsection (a)(1) an incident reported by 
the State or Indian Tribe in accordance with 
section 20104(a)(2) of the Violent Crime Con-
trol and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (34 
U.S.C. 12104(a)(2)). 
(C) RETENTION OF DATA.—Each law en-
forcement agency required to report data under 
this section shall maintain records relating to 
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any matter so reportable for not less than 4 
years after those records are created. 
(3) AUDIT OF USE-OF-FORCE REPORTING.—Not 
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this 
Act, and each year thereafter, each State or Indian 
Tribe described in paragraph (1) shall— 
(A) conduct an audit of the use-of-force in-
cident reporting system required to be estab-
lished under paragraph (1)(B); and 
(B) submit a report to the Attorney Gen-
eral on the audit conducted under subpara-
graph (A). 
(4) COMPLIANCE PROCEDURE.—Prior to sub-
mitting a report under paragraph (1)(A), the State 
or Indian Tribe submitting such report shall com-
pare the information compiled to be reported pursu-
ant to clause (i) of paragraph (1)(A) to publicly 
available sources, and shall revise such report to in-
clude any incident determined to be missing from 
the report based on such comparison. Failure to 
comply with the procedures described in the previous 
sentence shall be considered a failure to comply with 
the requirements of this section. 
(b) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—For any fiscal year in which 
a State or Indian Tribe fails to comply with this sec-
tion, the State or Indian Tribe, at the discretion of 
the Attorney General, shall be subject to not more 
than a 10-percent reduction of the funds that would 
otherwise be allocated for that fiscal year to the 
State or Indian Tribe under a Byrne grant program. 
(2) REALLOCATION.—Amounts not allocated 
under a Byrne grant program in accordance with 
paragraph (1) to a State for failure to comply with 
this section shall be reallocated under the Byrne 
grant program to States that have not failed to com-
ply with this section. 
(3) INFORMATION
REGARDING
SCHOOL
RE-
SOURCE OFFICERS.—The State or Indian Tribe shall 
ensure that all schools and local educational agencies 
within the jurisdiction of the State or Indian Tribe 
provide the State or Indian Tribe with the informa-
tion needed regarding school resource officers to 
comply with this section. 
(c) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF DATA.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and each year 
thereafter, the Attorney General shall publish, and 
make available to the public, a report containing the 
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data reported to the Attorney General under this 
section. 
(2) PRIVACY
PROTECTIONS.—Nothing in this 
subsection shall be construed to supersede the re-
quirements or limitations under section 552a of title 
5, United States Code (commonly known as the 
‘‘Privacy Act of 1974’’). 
(d) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in 
coordination with the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, shall issue guidance on best practices relat-
ing to establishing standard data collection systems that 
capture the information required to be reported under sub-
section (a)(2), which shall include standard and consistent 
definitions for terms. 
SEC. 224. USE OF FORCE DATA REPORTING. 
(a) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE
GRANTS
AUTHOR-
IZED.—The Attorney General may make grants to eligible 
law enforcement agencies to be used for the activities de-
scribed in subsection (c). 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—In order to be eligible to receive 
a grant under this section a law enforcement agency 
shall— 
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(1) be a tribal law enforcement agency or be lo-
cated in a State that receives funds under a Byrne 
grant program; 
(2) employ not more that 100 local or tribal law 
enforcement officers; 
(3) demonstrate that the use of force policy for 
local law enforcement officers or tribal law enforce-
ment officers employed by the law enforcement agen-
cy is publicly available; and 
(4) establish and maintain a complaint system 
that— 
(A) may be used by members of the public 
to report incidents of use of force to the law en-
forcement agency; 
(B) makes all information collected pub-
licly searchable and available; and 
(C) provides information on the status of 
an investigation related to a use of force com-
plaint. 
(c) ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED.—A grant made under 
this section may be used by a law enforcement agency 
for— 
(1) the cost of assisting the State or Indian 
Tribe in which the law enforcement agency is located 
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in complying with the reporting requirements de-
scribed in section 223; 
(2) the cost of establishing necessary systems 
required to investigate and report incidents as re-
quired under subsection (b)(4); 
(3) public awareness campaigns designed to 
gain information from the public on use of force by 
or against local and tribal law enforcement officers, 
including shootings, which may include tip lines, hot-
lines, and public service announcements; and 
(4) use-of-force training for law enforcement 
agencies and personnel, including training on dees-
calation, implicit bias, crisis intervention techniques, 
and adolescent development. 
SEC. 225. COMPLIANCE WITH REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, and each year thereafter, 
the Attorney General shall conduct an audit and review 
of the information provided under this subtitle to deter-
mine whether each State or Indian Tribe described in sec-
tion 223(a)(1) is in compliance with the requirements of 
this subtitle. 
(b) CONSISTENCY IN DATA REPORTING.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Any data reported under 
this subtitle shall be collected and reported— 
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(A) in a manner consistent with existing 
programs of the Department of Justice that 
collect data on local law enforcement officer en-
counters with civilians; and 
(B) in a manner consistent with civil rights 
laws for distribution of information to the pub-
lic. 
(2) GUIDELINES.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney Gen-
eral shall— 
(A) issue guidelines on the reporting re-
quirement under section 223; and 
(B) seek public comment before finalizing 
the guidelines required under subparagraph 
(A). 
SEC. 226. FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTING. 
The head of each Federal law enforcement agency 
shall submit to the Attorney General, on a quarterly basis 
and pursuant to guidelines established by the Attorney 
General, the information required to be reported by a 
State or Indian Tribe under section 223. 
SEC. 227. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Attor-
ney General such sums as are necessary to carry out this 
subtitle. 
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TITLE III—IMPROVING POLICE 
TRAINING AND POLICIES 
Subtitle A—End Racial and 
Religious Profiling Act 
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘End Racial and 
Religious Profiling Act of 2025’’ or ‘‘ERRPA’’. 
SEC. 302. DEFINITIONS. 
In this subtitle: 
(1) COVERED
PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘covered 
program’’ means any program or activity funded in 
whole or in part with funds made available under— 
(A) a Byrne grant program; and 
(B) the COPS grant program, except that 
no program, project, or other activity specified 
in section 1701(b)(13) of part Q of title I of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381 et seq.) shall be a cov-
ered program under this paragraph. 
(2) GOVERNMENTAL BODY.—The term ‘‘govern-
mental body’’ means any department, agency, special 
purpose district, or other instrumentality of Federal, 
State, local, or Indian Tribal government. 
(3) HIT RATE.—The term ‘‘hit rate’’ means the 
percentage of stops and searches in which a law en-
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forcement agent finds drugs, a gun, or something 
else that leads to an arrest. The hit rate is cal-
culated by dividing the total number of searches by 
the number of searches that yield contraband. The 
hit rate is complementary to the rate of false stops. 
(4) LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘law enforcement agency’’ means any Federal, 
State, or local public agency engaged in the preven-
tion, detection, or investigation of violations of crimi-
nal, immigration, or customs laws. 
(5) LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENT.—The term 
‘‘law enforcement agent’’ means any Federal, State, 
or local official responsible for enforcing criminal, 
immigration, or customs laws, including police offi-
cers and other agents of a law enforcement agency. 
(6) RACIAL PROFILING.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘racial 
profiling’’ means the practice of a law enforce-
ment agent or agency relying, to any degree, on 
actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national ori-
gin, religion, gender, gender identity, or sexual 
orientation in selecting which individual to sub-
ject to routine or spontaneous investigatory ac-
tivities or in deciding upon the scope and sub-
stance of law enforcement activity following the 
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initial investigatory procedure, except when 
there is trustworthy information, relevant to the 
locality and timeframe, that links a person with 
a particular characteristic described in this 
paragraph to an identified criminal incident or 
scheme. 
(B) EXCEPTION.—For purposes of sub-
paragraph (A), a tribal law enforcement officer 
exercising law enforcement authority within In-
dian country, as that term is defined in section 
1151 of title 18, United States Code, is not 
considered to be racial profiling with respect to 
making key jurisdictional determinations that 
are necessarily tied to reliance on actual or per-
ceived race, ethnicity, or tribal affiliation. 
(7) ROUTINE OR SPONTANEOUS INVESTIGATORY 
ACTIVITIES.—The term ‘‘routine or spontaneous in-
vestigatory activities’’ means the following activities 
by a law enforcement agent: 
(A) Interviews. 
(B) Traffic stops. 
(C) Pedestrian stops. 
(D) Frisks and other types of body 
searches. 
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