COPS Accountability Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7150
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Stanton, Greg [D-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2020-06-11
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Law enforcement administration and funding

Law enforcement officers

Photography and imaging

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>COPS Accountability Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill creates a new condition of eligibility for funds under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.</p> <p>Specifically, to be eligible for grant funds under the COPS program, a state or locality must require certain uniformed law enforcement officers to wear body cameras while on duty.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7150 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 11, 2020 Mr. Stanton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To require the use of body cameras for law enforcement officers as a condition of eligibility for COPS ON THE BEAT grants, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the COPS Accountability Act of 2020 . 2. Body camera requirement for COPS ON THE BEAT grants In order to be eligible for a grant under part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10381 et seq.), a State, unit of local government, and Indian tribal government shall— (1) in the first fiscal year that begins after the date of enactment of this Act, have in place a plan to implement the requirement under paragraph (2); and (2) in the second fiscal year that begins after the date of enactment of this Act, require uniformed law enforcement officers with the authority to conduct searches and make arrests to wear a body camera while on duty, for not less than 25 percent of such law enforcement officers of the jurisdiction; and (3) beginning in the third fiscal year that begins after the date of enactment of this Act, require uniformed law enforcement officers with the authority to conduct searches and make arrests to wear a body camera while on duty, for not less than 50 percent of such law enforcement officers of the jurisdiction. 3. Report On an annual basis, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate a report on the compliance of jurisdictions with the conditions on eligibility for grants described in section 2 during the previous fiscal year.