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(i) an officer assigned a patrol vehicle 
is conducting an enforcement stop; 
(ii) patrol vehicle emergency lights are 
activated or would otherwise be activated if 
not for the need to conceal the presence of 
law enforcement; or 
(iii) an officer reasonably believes re-
cording may assist with prosecution, en-
hance safety, or for any other lawful pur-
pose. In-car video camera recording equip-
ment with a recording medium incapable of 
recording for a period of 10 hours or more 
shall record activities inside the vehicle 
when transporting an arrestee or when an 
officer reasonably believes recording may 
assist with prosecution, enhance safety, or 
for any other lawful purpose; and 
(B) shall record activities whenever a pa-
trol vehicle is assigned to patrol duty. 
(3) REQUIREMENTS FOR RECORDING.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Recording for an en-
forcement stop shall begin when the officer de-
termines an enforcement stop is necessary and 
shall continue until the enforcement action has 
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been completed and the subject of the enforce-
ment stop or the officer has left the scene. 
(B) ACTIVATION
WITH
LIGHTS.—Record-
ing shall begin when patrol vehicle emergency 
lights are activated or when they would other-
wise be activated if not for the need to conceal 
the presence of law enforcement, and shall con-
tinue until the reason for the activation ceases 
to exist, regardless of whether the emergency 
lights are no longer activated. 
(C) PERMISSIBLE RECORDING.—An officer 
may begin recording if the officer reasonably 
believes recording may assist with prosecution, 
enhance safety, or for any other lawful purpose; 
and shall continue until the reason for record-
ing ceases to exist. 
(4) ENFORCEMENT
STOPS.—Any enforcement 
stop shall be video and audio recorded. Audio re-
cording shall terminate upon release of the violator 
and prior to initiating a separate criminal investiga-
tion. 
(c) RETENTION OF RECORDINGS.—Recordings made 
on in-car video camera recording medium shall be retained 
for a storage period of at least 90 days. Under no cir-
cumstances shall any recording made on in-car video cam-
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era recording medium be altered or erased prior to the 
expiration of the designated storage period. Upon comple-
tion of the storage period, the recording medium may be 
erased and reissued for operational use unless otherwise 
ordered or if designated for evidentiary or training pur-
poses. 
(d) ACCESSIBILITY OF RECORDINGS.—Audio or video 
recordings made pursuant to this section shall be available 
under the applicable provisions of section 552a of title 5, 
United States Code. Only recorded portions of the audio 
recording or video recording medium applicable to the re-
quest will be available for inspection or copying. 
(e) MAINTENANCE REQUIRED.—The agency shall en-
sure proper care and maintenance of in-car video camera 
recording equipment and recording medium. An officer op-
erating a patrol vehicle must immediately document and 
notify the appropriate person of any technical difficulties, 
failures, or problems with the in-car video camera record-
ing equipment or recording medium. Upon receiving no-
tice, every reasonable effort shall be made to correct and 
repair any of the in-car video camera recording equipment 
or recording medium and determine if it is in the public 
interest to permit the use of the patrol vehicle. 
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SEC. 374. FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY. 
No camera or recording device authorized or required 
to be used under this part may employ facial recognition 
technology. 
SEC. 375. GAO STUDY. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall conduct a study on Federal law enforcement officer 
training, vehicle pursuits, use of force, and interaction 
with citizens, and submit a report on such study to— 
(1) the Committees on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives and of the Senate; 
(2) the Committee on Oversight and Reform of 
the House of Representatives; and 
(3) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
SEC. 376. REGULATIONS. 
Not later than 6 months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Attorney General shall issue such 
final regulations as are necessary to carry out this part. 
SEC. 377. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this part shall be construed to impose any 
requirement on a uniformed officer outside of the course 
of carrying out that officer’s duty. 
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PART II—POLICE CAMERA ACT 
SEC. 381. SHORT TITLE. 
This part may be cited as the ‘‘Police Creating Ac-
countability by Making Effective Recording Available Act 
of 2020’’ or the ‘‘Police CAMERA Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 382. LAW ENFORCEMENT BODY-WORN CAMERA RE-
QUIREMENTS. 
(a) USE OF FUNDS REQUIREMENT.—Section 502(a) 
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10153(a)), as amended by section 
334, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(10) An assurance that, for each fiscal year 
covered by an application, the applicant will use not 
less than 5 percent of the total amount of the grant 
award for the fiscal year to develop policies and pro-
tocols in compliance with part OO.’’. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘PART OO—LAW ENFORCEMENT BODY-WORN 
CAMERAS AND RECORDED DATA 
‘‘SEC. 3051. USE OF GRANT FUNDS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Grant amounts described in 
paragraph (10) of section 502(a) of this title shall be 
used— 
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‘‘(1) to purchase or lease body-worn cameras 
for use by State, local, and tribal law enforcement 
officers (as defined in section 2503); 
‘‘(2) for expenses related to the implementation 
of a body-worn camera program in order to deter ex-
cessive force, improve accountability and trans-
parency of use of force by law enforcement officers, 
assist in responding to complaints against law en-
forcement officers, and improve evidence collection; 
or 
‘‘(3) implementing policies or procedures to 
comply with the requirements described in sub-
section (b). 
‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—A recipient of a grant under 
subpart 1 of part E of title I shall— 
‘‘(1) establish policies and procedures in accord-
ance with the requirements described in subsection 
(c) before law enforcement officers use of body-worn 
cameras; 
‘‘(2) adopt recorded data collection and reten-
tion protocols as described in subsection (d) before 
law enforcement officers use of body-worn cameras; 
‘‘(3) making the policies and protocols described 
in paragraphs (1) and (2) available to the public; 
and 
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‘‘(iii) the use of facial recognition 
technology with double verification of iden-
tified faces; 
‘‘(F) the release of any recorded data col-
lected by a body-worn camera in accordance 
with the open records laws, if any, of the State; 
and 
‘‘(G) making recorded data available to 
prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other offi-
cers of the court in accordance with subpara-
graph (E); and 
‘‘(2) conduct periodic evaluations of the security 
of the storage and handling of the body-worn camera 
data. 
‘‘(d) RECORDED DATA COLLECTION AND RETEN-
TION PROTOCOL.—The recorded data collection and reten-
tion protocol described in this paragraph is a protocol 
that— 
‘‘(1) requires— 
‘‘(A) a law enforcement officer who is 
wearing a body-mounted camera to provide an 
explanation if an activity that is required to be 
recorded by the body-mounted camera is not re-
corded; 
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‘‘(B) a law enforcement officer who is 
wearing a body-mounted camera to obtain con-
sent to be recorded from a crime victim or wit-
ness before interviewing the victim or witness; 
‘‘(C) the collection of recorded data unre-
lated to a legitimate law enforcement purpose 
be minimized to the greatest extent practicable; 
‘‘(D) the system used to store recorded 
data collected by body-worn cameras shall log 
all viewing, modification, or deletion of stored 
recorded data and shall prevent, to the greatest 
extent practicable, the unauthorized access or 
disclosure of stored recorded data; 
‘‘(E) any law enforcement officer be pro-
hibited from accessing the stored data without 
an authorized purpose; and 
‘‘(F) the law enforcement agency to collect 
and report statistical data on— 
‘‘(i) incidences of use of force, 
disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, 
and age of the victim; 
‘‘(ii) the number of complaints filed 
against law enforcement officers; 
‘‘(iii) the disposition of complaints 
filed against law enforcement officers; 
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‘‘(iv) the number of times camera 
footage is used for evidence collection in 
investigations of crimes; and 
‘‘(v) any other additional statistical 
data that the Director determines should 
be collected and reported; 
‘‘(2) allows an individual to file a complaint 
with a law enforcement agency relating to the im-
proper use of body-worn cameras; and 
‘‘(3) complies with any other requirements es-
tablished by the Director. 
‘‘(e) REPORTING.—Statistical data required to be col-
lected under subsection (d)(1)(D) shall be reported to the 
Director, who shall— 
‘‘(1) establish a standardized reporting system 
for statistical data collected under this program; and 
‘‘(2) establish a national database of statistical 
data recorded under this program. 
‘‘(f) USE OR TRANSFER OF RECORDED DATA.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Recorded data collected by 
an entity receiving a grant under this section from 
a body-mounted camera shall be used only in inter-
nal and external investigations of misconduct by a 
law enforcement agency or officer, if there is reason-
able suspicion that a recording contains evidence of 
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a crime, or for limited training purposes. The Direc-
tor shall establish rules to ensure that the recorded 
data is used only for the purposes described in this 
subparagraph. 
‘‘(2) PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER.—Except as 
provided in paragraph (3), an entity receiving a 
grant under this section may not transfer any re-
corded data collected by the entity from a body- 
mounted camera to another law enforcement or in-
telligence agency. 
‘‘(3) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(A) CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.—An enti-
ty receiving a grant under this section may 
transfer recorded data collected by the entity 
from a body-mounted camera to another law 
enforcement agency or intelligence agency for 
use in a criminal investigation if the requesting 
law enforcement or intelligence agency has rea-
sonable suspicion that the requested data con-
tains evidence relating to the crime being inves-
tigated. 
‘‘(B) CIVIL RIGHTS CLAIMS.—An entity re-
ceiving a grant under this section may transfer 
recorded data collected by the law enforcement 
agency from a body-mounted camera to another 
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law enforcement agency for use in an investiga-
tion of any right, privilege, or immunity secured 
or protected by the Constitution or laws of the 
United States. 
‘‘(g) AUDIT AND ASSESSMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years 
after the date of enactment of this part, the Director 
of the Office of Audit, Assessment, and Management 
shall perform an assessment of the use of funds 
under this section and the policies and protocols of 
the grantees. 
‘‘(2) REPORTS.—Not later than September 1 of 
each year, beginning 2 years after the date of enact-
ment of this part, each recipient of a grant under 
this part shall submit to the Director of the Office 
of Audit, Assessment, and Management a report 
that— 
‘‘(A) describes the progress of the body- 
worn camera program; and 
‘‘(B) contains recommendations on ways in 
which the Federal Government, States, and 
units of local government can further support 
the implementation of the program. 
‘‘(3) REVIEW.—The Director of the Office of 
Audit, Assessment, and Management shall evaluate 
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the policies and protocols of the grantees and take 
such steps as the Director of the Office of Audit, As-
sessment, and Management determines necessary to 
ensure compliance with the program. 
‘‘SEC. 3052. BODY-WORN CAMERA TRAINING TOOLKIT. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall establish and 
maintain a toolkit for law enforcement agencies, academia, 
and other relevant entities to provide training and tech-
nical assistance, including best practices for implementa-
tion, model policies and procedures, and research mate-
rials. 
‘‘(b) MECHANISM.—In establishing the toolkit re-
quired to under subsection (a), the Director may consoli-
date research, practices, templates, and tools that been de-
veloped by expert and law enforcement agencies across the 
country. 
‘‘SEC. 3053. STUDY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after the 
date of enactment of the Police CAMERA Act of 2020, 
the Director shall conduct a study on— 
‘‘(1) the efficacy of body-worn cameras in deter-
ring excessive force by law enforcement officers; 
‘‘(2) the impact of body-worn cameras on the 
accountability and transparency of the use of force 
by law enforcement officers; 
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‘‘(13) best practices in the development of pro-
tocols for the safe and effective use of body-worn 
cameras; 
‘‘(14) a review of law enforcement agencies that 
found body-worn cameras to be unhelpful in the op-
erations of the agencies; and 
‘‘(15) any other factors that the Director deter-
mines are relevant in evaluating the efficacy of body- 
worn cameras. 
‘‘(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date on which the study required under subsection (a) is 
completed, the Director shall submit to Congress a report 
on the study, which shall include any policy recommenda-
tions that the Director considers appropriate.’’. 
TITLE IV—JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS 
OF LYNCHING ACT 
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Emmett Till Anti- 
Lynching Act’’. 
SEC. 402. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The crime of lynching succeeded slavery as 
the ultimate expression of racism in the United 
States following Reconstruction. 
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(2) Lynching was a widely acknowledged prac-
tice in the United States until the middle of the 
20th century. 
(3) Lynching was a crime that occurred 
throughout the United States, with documented inci-
dents in all but 4 States. 
(4) At least 4,742 people, predominantly Afri-
can Americans, were reported lynched in the United 
States between 1882 and 1968. 
(5) Ninety-nine percent of all perpetrators of 
lynching escaped from punishment by State or local 
officials. 
(6) Lynching prompted African Americans to 
form the National Association for the Advancement 
of Colored People (referred to in this section as the 
‘‘NAACP’’) and prompted members of B’nai B’rith 
to found the Anti-Defamation League. 
(7) Mr. Walter White, as a member of the 
NAACP and later as the executive secretary of the 
NAACP from 1931 to 1955, meticulously inves-
tigated lynchings in the United States and worked 
tirelessly to end segregation and racialized terror. 
(8) Nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were intro-
duced in Congress during the first half of the 20th 
century. 
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(9) Between 1890 and 1952, 7 Presidents peti-
tioned Congress to end lynching. 
(10) Between 1920 and 1940, the House of 
Representatives passed 3 strong anti-lynching meas-
ures. 
(11) Protection against lynching was the min-
imum and most basic of Federal responsibilities, and 
the Senate considered but failed to enact anti-lynch-
ing legislation despite repeated requests by civil 
rights groups, Presidents, and the House of Rep-
resentatives to do so. 
(12) The publication of ‘‘Without Sanctuary: 
Lynching Photography in America’’ helped bring 
greater awareness and proper recognition of the vic-
tims of lynching. 
(13) Only by coming to terms with history can 
the United States effectively champion human rights 
abroad. 
(14) An apology offered in the spirit of true re-
pentance moves the United States toward reconcili-
ation and may become central to a new under-
standing, on which improved racial relations can be 
forged. 
(15) Having concluded that a reckoning with 
our own history is the only way the country can ef-
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fectively champion human rights abroad, 90 Mem-
bers of the United States Senate agreed to Senate 
Resolution 39, 109th Congress, on June 13, 2005, 
to apologize to the victims of lynching and the de-
scendants of those victims for the failure of the Sen-
ate to enact anti-lynching legislation. 
(16) The National Memorial for Peace and Jus-
tice, which opened to the public in Montgomery, Ala-
bama, on April 26, 2018, is the Nation’s first memo-
rial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, 
people terrorized by lynching, African Americans hu-
miliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and 
people of color burdened with contemporary pre-
sumptions of guilt and police violence. 
(17) Notwithstanding the Senate’s apology and 
the heightened awareness and education about the 
Nation’s legacy with lynching, it is wholly necessary 
and appropriate for the Congress to enact legisla-
tion, after 100 years of unsuccessful legislative ef-
forts, finally to make lynching a Federal crime. 
(18) Further, it is the sense of Congress that 
criminal action by a group increases the likelihood 
that the criminal object of that group will be suc-
cessfully attained and decreases the probability that 
the individuals involved will depart from their path 
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of criminality. Therefore, it is appropriate to specify 
criminal penalties for the crime of lynching, or any 
attempt or conspiracy to commit lynching. 
(19) The United States Senate agreed to unani-
mously Senate Resolution 118, 115th Congress, on 
April 5, 2017, ‘‘[c]ondemning hate crime and any 
other form of racism, religious or ethnic bias, dis-
crimination, incitement to violence, or animus tar-
geting a minority in the United States’’ and taking 
notice specifically of Federal Bureau of Investigation 
statistics demonstrating that ‘‘among single-bias 
hate crime incidents in the United States, 59.2 per-
cent of victims were targeted due to racial, ethnic, 
or ancestral bias, and among those victims, 52.2 
percent were victims of crimes motivated by the of-
fenders’ anti-Black or anti-African American bias’’. 
(20) On September 14, 2017, President Donald 
J. Trump signed into law Senate Joint Resolution 
49 (Public Law 115–58; 131 Stat. 1149), wherein 
Congress ‘‘condemn[ed] the racist violence and do-
mestic terrorist attack that took place between Au-
gust 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, 
Virginia’’ and ‘‘urg[ed] the President and his admin-
istration to speak out against hate groups that 
espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semi-
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tism, and White supremacy; and use all resources 
available to the President and the President’s Cabi-
net to address the growing prevalence of those hate 
groups in the United States’’. 
(21) Senate Joint Resolution 49 (Public Law 
115–58; 131 Stat. 1149) specifically took notice of 
‘‘hundreds of torch-bearing White nationalists, 
White supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis [who] 
chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slo-
gans and violently engaged with counter-demonstra-
tors on and around the grounds of the University of 
Virginia in Charlottesville’’ and that these groups 
‘‘reportedly are organizing similar events in other 
cities in the United States and communities every-
where are concerned about the growing and open 
display of hate and violence being perpetrated by 
those groups’’. 
(22) Lynching was a pernicious and pervasive 
tool that was used to interfere with multiple aspects 
of life—including the exercise of federally protected 
rights, as enumerated in section 245 of title 18, 
United States Code, housing rights, as enumerated 
in section 901 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3631), and the free exercise of religion, as 
enumerated in section 247 of title 18, United States 
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Code. Interference with these rights was often effec-
tuated by multiple offenders and groups, rather than 
isolated individuals. Therefore, prohibiting conspir-
acies to violate each of these rights recognizes the 
history of lynching in the United States and serves 
to prohibit its use in the future. 
SEC. 403. LYNCHING. 
(a) OFFENSE.—Chapter 13 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 250. Lynching 
‘‘Whoever conspires with another person to violate 
section 245, 247, or 249 of this title or section 901 of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3631) shall be 
punished in the same manner as a completed violation of 
such section, except that if the maximum term of impris-
onment for such completed violation is less than 10 years, 
the person may be imprisoned for not more than 10 
years.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF SECTIONS AMENDMENT.—The table of 
sections for chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
249 the following: 
‘‘250. Lynching.’’. 
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TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act, or the application of such 
a provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be 
unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and the appli-
cation of the remaining provisions of this Act to any per-
son or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. 
SEC. 502. SAVINGS CLAUSE. 
Nothing in this Act shall be construed— 
(1) to limit legal or administrative remedies 
under section 1979 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States (42 U.S.C. 1983), section 210401 of 
the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12601), title I of the Omni-
bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10101 et seq.), or title VI of the Civil Rights 
Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.); 
(2) to affect any Federal, State, or Tribal law 
that applies to an Indian Tribe because of the polit-
ical status of the Tribe; or 
(3) to waive the sovereign immunity of an In-
dian Tribe without the consent of the Tribe. 
Æ 
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