Sponsor
Stephen Cohen
Representative · D-TN
Representative · D-TN
The bill aims to reduce racial profiling and increase transparency and accountability through definitions, data collection, legal remedies, training, and grants — but does so at the cost of substantial administrative, financial, and litigation burdens for many law-enforcement agencies and raises privacy and implementation‑uncertainty risks.
Racial and ethnic minority communities will face fewer discriminatory stops because the bill bans racial profiling, clarifies a broad definition of racial profiling, and requires agencies to prohibit and eliminate profiling.
The public, researchers, and policymakers will get standardized data and regular reports on stops/searches (disaggregated by race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion and hit rates), improving transparency to detect disparities and guide reforms.
Individuals harmed by racial profiling gain enforceable remedies — including declaratory or injunctive relief and the ability to sue officers, supervisors, or governments with potential fee recovery for prevailing plaintiffs — increasing accountability.
State, local, and federal law enforcement agencies — especially small and rural departments — will face significant new administrative, recordkeeping, data system, and training costs to comply with reporting and certification requirements.
Individual officers, supervisors, and governments will confront increased civil-liability exposure and private litigation (including suits for injunctions and declaratory relief), raising legal costs and potential personal risk for officers.
Expanded collection, access, and sharing of disaggregated stop/search data increases risks of privacy harms and potential misuse of sensitive demographic information if safeguards fail.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Bars racial profiling for agencies under specified federal grants; requires anti-profiling policies, standardized data collection/reporting, training, complaint/audit procedures, and creates private enforcement.
Official title: To eliminate racial, religious, and other discriminatory profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.
Introduced October 10, 2025 by Stephen Cohen · Last progress October 10, 2025
Prohibits racial profiling by federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement where funding comes from specified Byrne/JAG and Omnibus Crime Control grant programs; requires policies, training, data collection, complaint or audit procedures, and Attorney General regulations to implement standardized reporting and oversight. Creates a private right of action for people impacted by profiling, authorizes demonstration grants and BJA assistance for data and best practices, and requires Attorney General reports to Congress and public reporting (with privacy protections).