Sponsors (8)
The bill trades stronger privacy protections, transparency, and enforceable remedies for covered surveillance data against increased administrative costs, potential litigation, and possible operational constraints for law enforcement and local partners.
Most people (residents, protesters, students, immigrants, and the general public): the bill imposes strong new limits on federal warrantless access and retention of covered surveillance data — including 30‑day retention defaults, prompt deletion of non‑pertinent data, strict segregation of covered data, and prohibitions on identifying people solely for protected First Amendment activity.
Taxpayers and oversight bodies: the bill creates much greater transparency and external oversight by requiring contemporaneous logging of federal accesses, Attorney General reporting every 180 days (with unclassified summaries), and required reporting to congressional judiciary committees.
People whose data are mishandled and criminal defendants: the bill strengthens accountability and remedies by allowing civil suits against the federal government, authorizing employee discipline for knowing or reckless violations, requiring IG audits and agency corrective actions, and expanding disclosure obligations for unlawfully obtained or over‑retained data.
Law enforcement (federal, state, local) and the public safety mission: stricter access, retention, segregation, and warrant requirements may delay or constrain multi‑jurisdictional and time‑sensitive investigations, potentially hindering responses to credible threats.
Federal, state, and local agencies and taxpayers: the bill imposes substantial new administrative and compliance burdens (logging, frequent warranting, retention/destruction processes, segregation, audits, training, and reporting), increasing costs and staff time.
Local governments, schools, and taxpayers: prohibiting use of federal grant funds for certain surveillance tools may force jurisdictions or schools to buy permissible systems from local budgets or forego tools, shifting costs to taxpayers or reducing other services.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Limits federal access to local surveillance data (warrant required), bans federal purchases of listed technologies (narrow exceptions), sets retention/minimization rules, reporting, audits, and private lawsuits for violations.
Official title: To prohibit Federal law enforcement agencies from using or accessing State or local surveillance equipment or data to circumvent warrant requirements, to establish a Jurisdictional Wall List of covered technologies, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 15, 2026 by Keith Self · Last progress July 15, 2026
Restricts federal law enforcement access to surveillance data collected by state and local agencies using technologies placed on a new federal "Jurisdictional Wall List," generally requiring a federal judicial warrant and limiting retention. Bars federal funds from purchasing or installing listed surveillance technologies (with narrow exceptions), requires reporting, audits, training, and creates a private right of action and administrative sanctions for violations. Imposes a 30-day default retention limit for covered data (with limited court-authorized extensions), mandates minimization and deletion rules, and requires the Attorney General to maintain the list, publish notices, issue regulations, and submit semiannual public reports describing federal access to covered surveillance data.