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The bill aims to give state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners faster, more coordinated intelligence and oversight, at the trade‑off of heightened privacy/surveillance risks and potential resource strains or unfunded expectations for partners.
State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments (and the communities they serve) would receive more timely, prioritized, and actionable intelligence to identify and respond to emerging threats.
Local and state partners can both send tips and receive actionable intelligence faster through improved two-way information sharing, improving collaboration, trust, and operational response.
Strengthening engagement with regional fusion centers could improve regional threat analysis and coordination across agencies, enhancing situational awareness at the state and local level.
Encouraging proactive intelligence collection and deeper information fusion between law enforcement, intelligence, fusion centers, and the private sector raises significant privacy and civil‑liberties risks for individuals, communities, businesses, nonprofits, and minority groups.
Implementing forward‑deployed capabilities and shifting I&A priorities could divert resources or analytic capacity from other federal intelligence missions and impose additional costs on taxpayers or require DHS reorganization.
Non‑binding 'sense of Congress' language and guidance may create expectations among state and local partners without providing dedicated funding or clear, enforceable oversight, leaving partners to absorb costs or administrative burden.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS’s intelligence office to prioritize timely, two‑way intelligence support to State, local, Tribal, territorial governments and private partners and report progress within 180 days.
Introduced February 9, 2026 by August Pfluger · Last progress February 9, 2026
Directs the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence office to realign its operations so it gives State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments and private-sector partners timely, two‑way intelligence support on par with support given to the intelligence community. Requires the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis to report to congressional committees within 180 days on implementation steps, progress on two‑way information sharing, evaluation metrics, and any resource or organizational needs to sustain the realignment; does not change watchlisting functions.