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The bill aims to reduce harm and boost accountability in DHS policing through training, restraint bans, and frequent public/OIG oversight, but it imposes implementation costs and creates privacy and operational trade‑offs that could affect investigations and officer decision‑making.
DHS and its law enforcement personnel will receive standardized initial and recurrent training that emphasizes de‑escalation, improving officer preparedness and likely reducing harmful encounters with the public.
People who are arrested—particularly people with disabilities and racial and ethnic minorities—will face lower risk of serious injury or death because chokeholds and carotid restraints are prohibited.
Taxpayers, local governments, and affected communities will gain greater transparency and accountability through semiannual disaggregated incident reports, rapid 24‑hour briefings after serious incidents, and ongoing DHS OIG compliance reviews.
Taxpayers and DHS components will incur administrative and implementation costs to create new training programs, personnel roles, and review councils.
Individuals involved in incidents — including people with disabilities — risk exposure of sensitive details even with privacy protections when incident‑level data are published semiannually.
Law enforcement officers may have reduced tactical options in extreme, split‑second situations because certain restraints and techniques are banned, which could complicate responses to immediate threats.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to adopt a department-wide use-of-force policy limiting force, banning chokeholds, mandating training, standardized data collection, semiannual public reports, and IG oversight.
Introduced January 15, 2026 by Delia Ramirez · Last progress January 15, 2026
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to adopt a single, department-wide use-of-force policy for all DHS law enforcement officers and agents that limits force to what is objectively reasonable, emphasizes de-escalation, bans chokeholds and carotid restraints against non-compliant persons resisting arrest, and sets training, oversight, and reporting requirements. The measure also mandates standardized data collection, semiannual public reports with incident-level data for serious force incidents, rapid notification to Congress and the public of any DHS use-of-force event that results in hospitalization or death, and ongoing review by the DHS Inspector General.