Law Enforcement Identification Act

Bill: 116-s-3909
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2020-06-08
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Law enforcement administration and funding

Law enforcement officers

Military personnel and dependents

Protest and dissent
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Law Enforcement Identification Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires federal law enforcement officers and members of the Armed Forces engaged in crowd control, riot control, or arrest or detainment of individuals engaged in an act of civil disobedience, demonstration, protest, or riot to display clearly visible identifying information.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3909 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 8, 2020 Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Schumer , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Markey , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Heinrich , Mr. Reed , Ms. Hirono , Ms. Harris , Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Cardin , Mr. Brown , Mrs. Murray , Ms. Warren , Mr. Udall , Mr. Whitehouse , Mr. Menendez , Mr. Booker , Ms. Klobuchar , Mr. Merkley , and Mr. Peters ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To require Federal law enforcement officers, including contract employees, and members of the armed forces engaged in crowd control, riot control, or arrest or detainment of individuals engaged in civil disobedience, demonstrations, protests, or riots to visibly display identifying information.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Law Enforcement Identification Act . 2. Identifying information for Federal law enforcement officers, including contract employees, and members of the armed forces engaged in crowd control, riot control, or arrest or detainment (a) Definitions In this section— (1) the term Federal law enforcement officer means— (A) an employee or officer in a position in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Federal Government who is authorized by law to engage in or supervise a law enforcement function; or (B) an employee or officer of a contractor or subcontractor (at any tier) of an agency in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Federal Government who is authorized by law or under the contract with the agency to engage in or supervise a law enforcement function; (2) the term law enforcement function means the prevention, detection, or investigation of, or the prosecution or incarceration of any person for, any violation of law; and (3) the term member of an armed force means a member of any of the armed forces, as defined in section 101(a)(4) of title 10, United States Code, or a member of the National Guard, as defined in section 101(3) of title 32, United States Code. (b) Requirement Each Federal law enforcement officer or member of an armed force who is engaged in any form of crowd control, riot control, or arrest or detainment of individuals engaged in an act of civil disobedience, demonstration, protest, or riot in the United States shall at all times display identifying information in a clearly visible fashion, which shall include the Federal agency, last name, and badge number of the Federal law enforcement officer or the armed force, last name, and rank of the member of an armed force, respectively.