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The bill prioritizes safer, more transparent DHS use‑of‑force practices and stronger independent oversight to reduce harmful encounters, while imposing new costs, raising privacy and communication risks, and potentially constraining some tactical options for officers.
People interacting with DHS law enforcement — including people with disabilities and racial/ethnic minorities — will face a lower risk of serious injury or death because DHS will prohibit chokeholds and carotid restraints and require standardized initial and recurrent de‑escalation training for officers.
Taxpayers, communities, and Congress will gain greater transparency and timelier information because DHS must publish semiannual disaggregated incident‑level data and provide rapid (24‑hour) briefings after incidents that cause hospitalization or death.
Taxpayers and the public will get stronger independent oversight as the DHS Office of Inspector General will conduct ongoing compliance reviews, helping identify systemic problems and drive reforms.
Taxpayers and DHS components will incur new administrative and implementation costs because components must develop training programs, create personnel roles, and stand up review councils to comply with the requirements.
People involved in use‑of‑force incidents — including people with disabilities and victims — risk reduced privacy and potential exposure of sensitive details from semiannual publication of disaggregated incident‑level data, which could complicate investigations and harm individuals' privacy.
Frequent public reporting and rapid notifications risk public misunderstanding of preliminary or incomplete information before full investigations conclude, potentially undermining community trust and inflaming tensions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to adopt a department-wide use-of-force policy limiting force to what is objectively reasonable, banning chokeholds, and requiring training, data collection, reporting, 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 on resisting persons, and requires identification and verbal warnings when feasible. The bill also mandates initial and recurrent training, component-level subject-matter experts and review councils, standardized incident data collection, semiannual public reports with disaggregated incident-level data for certain incidents, 24-hour public and congressional notice for incidents causing hospitalization or death, and continuous DHS Inspector General oversight.