(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to any 
transfer of property made after the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
SEC. 366. PUBLIC SAFETY INNOVATION GRANTS. 
(a) BYRNE GRANTS USED FOR LOCAL TASK FORCES 
ON PUBLIC SAFETY INNOVATION.—Section 501(a) of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10151(a)), as amended by this Act, is further 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) LOCAL TASK FORCES ON PUBLIC SAFETY 
INNOVATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A law enforcement 
program under paragraph (1)(A) may include 
the development of best practices for and the 
creation of local task forces on public safety in-
novation, charged with exploring and developing 
new strategies for public safety, including non- 
law enforcement strategies. 
‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—The term ‘local task 
force on public safety innovation’ means an ad-
ministrative entity, created from partnerships 
between community-based organizations and 
other local stakeholders, that may develop inno-
vative law enforcement and non-law enforce-
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ment strategies to enhance just and equitable 
public safety, repair breaches of trust between 
law enforcement agencies and the community 
they pledge to serve, and enhance accountability 
of law enforcement officers.’’. 
(b) CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMS.—Section 501(c) 
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10152(c)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) In the case of crisis intervention teams 
funded under subsection (a)(1)(H), a program as-
sessment under this subsection shall contain a report 
on best practices for crisis intervention.’’. 
(c) USE OF COPS GRANT PROGRAM TO HIRE LAW 
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF THE 
COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE.—Section 1701(b) of title I 
of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381(b)), as amended by this Act, is 
further amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (23) and (24) 
as paragraphs (26) and (27), respectively; 
(2) in paragraph (26), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘(22)’’ and inserting ‘‘(25)’’; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (22) the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(23) to recruit, hire, incentivize, retain, de-
velop, and train new, additional career law enforce-
ment officers or current law enforcement officers 
who are willing to relocate to communities— 
‘‘(A) where there are poor or fragmented 
relationships between police and residents of the 
community, or where there are high incidents of 
crime; and 
‘‘(B) that are the communities that the law 
enforcement officers serve, or that are in close 
proximity to the communities that the law en-
forcement officers serve; 
‘‘(24) to collect data on the number of law en-
forcement officers who are willing to relocate to the 
communities where they serve, and whether such law 
enforcement officer relocations have impacted crime 
in such communities; 
‘‘(25) to develop and publicly report strategies 
and timelines to recruit, hire, promote, retain, de-
velop, and train a diverse and inclusive law enforce-
ment workforce, consistent with merit system prin-
ciples and applicable law;’’. 
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Subtitle C—Law Enforcement Body 
Cameras 
PART 1—FEDERAL POLICE CAMERA AND 
ACCOUNTABILITY ACT 
SEC. 371. SHORT TITLE. 
This part may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Police Cam-
era and Accountability Act’’. 
SEC. 372. REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT OFFICERS REGARDING THE USE OF 
BODY CAMERAS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) MINOR.—The term ‘‘minor’’ means any in-
dividual under 18 years of age. 
(2) SUBJECT OF THE VIDEO FOOTAGE.—The 
term ‘‘subject of the video footage’’— 
(A) means any identifiable Federal law en-
forcement officer or any identifiable suspect, 
victim, detainee, conversant, injured party, or 
other similarly situated person who appears on 
the body camera recording; and 
(B) does not include people who only inci-
dentally appear on the recording. 
(3) VIDEO FOOTAGE.—The term ‘‘video foot-
age’’ means any images or audio recorded by a body 
camera. 
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(b) REQUIREMENT TO WEAR BODY CAMERA.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Federal law enforcement of-
ficers shall wear a body camera. 
(2) REQUIREMENT
FOR
BODY
CAMERA.—A 
body camera required under paragraph (1) shall— 
(A) have a field of view at least as broad 
as the officer’s vision; and 
(B) be worn in a manner that maximizes 
the camera’s ability to capture video footage of 
the officer’s activities. 
(c) REQUIREMENT TO ACTIVATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Both the video and audio re-
cording functions of the body camera shall be acti-
vated whenever a Federal law enforcement officer is 
responding to a call for service or at the initiation 
of any other law enforcement or investigative stop 
(as such term is defined in section 373) between a 
Federal law enforcement officer and a member of 
the public, except that when an immediate threat to 
the officer’s life or safety makes activating the cam-
era impossible or dangerous, the officer shall acti-
vate the camera at the first reasonable opportunity 
to do so. 
(2) ALLOWABLE
DEACTIVATION.—The body 
camera shall not be deactivated until the stop has 
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fully concluded and the Federal law enforcement of-
ficer leaves the scene. 
(d) NOTIFICATION OF SUBJECT OF RECORDING.—A 
Federal law enforcement officer who is wearing a body 
camera shall notify any subject of the recording that he 
or she is being recorded by a body camera as close to the 
inception of the stop as is reasonably possible. 
(e) REQUIREMENTS.—Notwithstanding subsection 
(c), the following shall apply to the use of a body camera: 
(1) Prior to entering a private residence with-
out a warrant or in nonexigent circumstances, a 
Federal law enforcement officer shall ask the occu-
pant if the occupant wants the officer to discontinue 
use of the officer’s body camera. If the occupant re-
sponds affirmatively, the Federal law enforcement 
officer shall immediately discontinue use of the body 
camera. 
(2) When interacting with an apparent crime 
victim, a Federal law enforcement officer shall, as 
soon as practicable, ask the apparent crime victim if 
the apparent crime victim wants the officer to dis-
continue use of the officer’s body camera. If the ap-
parent crime victim responds affirmatively, the Fed-
eral law enforcement officer shall immediately dis-
continue use of the body camera. 
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(3) When interacting with a person seeking to 
anonymously report a crime or assist in an ongoing 
law enforcement investigation, a Federal law en-
forcement officer shall, as soon as practicable, ask 
the person seeking to remain anonymous, if the per-
son seeking to remain anonymous wants the officer 
to discontinue use of the officer’s body camera. If 
the person seeking to remain anonymous responds 
affirmatively, the Federal law enforcement officer 
shall immediately discontinue use of the body cam-
era. 
(f) RECORDING OF OFFERS TO DISCONTINUE USE 
OF BODY CAMERA.—Each offer of a Federal law enforce-
ment officer to discontinue the use of a body camera made 
pursuant to subsection (e), and the responses thereto, 
shall be recorded by the body camera prior to dis-
continuing use of the body camera. 
(g) LIMITATIONS ON USE OF BODY CAMERA.—Body 
cameras shall not be used to gather intelligence informa-
tion based on First Amendment protected speech, associa-
tions, or religion, or to record activity that is unrelated 
to a response to a call for service or a law enforcement 
or investigative stop between a law enforcement officer 
and a member of the public, and shall not be equipped 
with or employ any facial recognition technologies. 
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(h) EXCEPTIONS.—Federal law enforcement offi-
cers— 
(1) shall not be required to use body cameras 
during investigative or enforcement stops with the 
public in the case that— 
(A) recording would risk the safety of a 
confidential informant, citizen informant, or un-
dercover officer; 
(B) recording would pose a serious risk to 
national security; or 
(C) the officer is a military police officer, 
a member of the United States Army Criminal 
Investigation Command, or a protective detail 
assigned to a Federal or foreign official while 
performing his or her duties; and 
(2) shall not activate a body camera while on 
the grounds of any public, private or parochial ele-
mentary or secondary school, except when respond-
ing to an imminent threat to life or health. 
(i) RETENTION OF FOOTAGE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Body camera video footage 
shall be retained by the law enforcement agency that 
employs the officer whose camera captured the foot-
age, or an authorized agent thereof, for 6 months 
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after the date it was recorded, after which time such 
footage shall be permanently deleted. 
(2) RIGHT TO INSPECT.—During the 6-month 
retention period described in paragraph (1), the fol-
lowing persons shall have the right to inspect the 
body camera footage: 
(A) Any person who is a subject of body 
camera video footage, and their designated legal 
counsel. 
(B) A parent or legal guardian of a minor 
subject of body camera video footage, and their 
designated legal counsel. 
(C) The spouse, next of kin, or legally au-
thorized designee of a deceased subject of body 
camera video footage, and their designated legal 
counsel. 
(D) A Federal law enforcement officer 
whose body camera recorded the video footage, 
and their designated legal counsel, subject to 
the limitations and restrictions in this part. 
(E) The superior officer of a Federal law 
enforcement officer whose body camera re-
corded the video footage, subject to the limita-
tions and restrictions in this part. 
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(F) Any defense counsel who claims, pur-
suant to a written affidavit, to have a reason-
able basis for believing a video may contain evi-
dence that exculpates a client. 
(3) LIMITATION.—The right to inspect subject 
to subsection (j)(1) shall not include the right to 
possess a copy of the body camera video footage, un-
less the release of the body camera footage is other-
wise authorized by this part or by another applicable 
law. When a body camera fails to capture some or 
all of the audio or video of an incident due to mal-
function, displacement of camera, or any other 
cause, any audio or video footage that is captured 
shall be treated the same as any other body camera 
audio or video footage under this part. 
(j) ADDITIONAL RETENTION REQUIREMENTS.—Not-
withstanding the retention and deletion requirements in 
subsection (i), the following shall apply to body camera 
video footage under this part: 
(1) Body camera video footage shall be auto-
matically retained for not less than 3 years if the 
video footage captures an interaction or event involv-
ing— 
(A) any use of force; or 
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(B) any stop about which a complaint has 
been registered by a subject of the video foot-
age. 
(2) Body camera video footage shall be retained 
for not less than 3 years if a longer retention period 
is voluntarily requested by— 
(A) the Federal law enforcement officer 
whose body camera recorded the video footage, 
if that officer reasonably asserts the video foot-
age has evidentiary or exculpatory value in an 
ongoing investigation; 
(B) any Federal law enforcement officer 
who is a subject of the video footage, if that of-
ficer reasonably asserts the video footage has 
evidentiary or exculpatory value; 
(C) any superior officer of a Federal law 
enforcement officer whose body camera re-
corded the video footage or who is a subject of 
the video footage, if that superior officer rea-
sonably asserts the video footage has evi-
dentiary or exculpatory value; 
(D) any Federal law enforcement officer, if 
the video footage is being retained solely and 
exclusively for police training purposes; 
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(E) any member of the public who is a 
subject of the video footage; 
(F) any parent or legal guardian of a 
minor who is a subject of the video footage; or 
(G) a deceased subject’s spouse, next of 
kin, or legally authorized designee. 
(k) PUBLIC REVIEW.—For purposes of subpara-
graphs (E), (F), and (G) of subsection (j)(2), any member 
of the public who is a subject of video footage, the parent 
or legal guardian of a minor who is a subject of the video 
footage, or a deceased subject’s next of kin or legally au-
thorized designee, shall be permitted to review the specific 
video footage in question in order to make a determination 
as to whether they will voluntarily request it be subjected 
to a minimum 3-year retention period. 
(l) DISCLOSURE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), all video footage of an interaction or 
event captured by a body camera, if that interaction 
or event is identified with reasonable specificity and 
requested by a member of the public, shall be pro-
vided to the person or entity making the request in 
accordance with the procedures for requesting and 
providing government records set forth in the section 
552a of title 5, United States Code. 
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