YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityCivil LibertiesYou could look up how often police use deadly force — states that skip the reports lose grant money.
Transparency & Accountability
The Bureau of Justice Statistics would gather reports from federal, state, and local agencies. It would post the data for anyone to see, and send it to Congress.
Each report would include why the agency says force was used. It would also include the force rules in place then, plus any non-lethal steps tried first.
A state or city that largely fails to report would lose 10 percent of its federal law enforcement grant the next year. That grant money pays for local police programs.
Civil Liberties
Names of officers, the people force was used on, and bystanders could not be released to the public. A person could still get their own record, and courts could order it in a lawsuit.
Reports would list race, gender, rough age, and perceived religion. That covers both the officer and the person involved. Names are left out of the public data.
More about this bill
You could look up national data on every time police use deadly force. The Justice Department would publish what federal, state, and local agencies report. Each report would list the date, place, and what happened. It would also list the race, gender, age, and perceived religion of the officer and the person involved. Names would stay private. Most people would notice no change in daily life. The Attorney General would write the rules within six months of the bill becoming law. States and cities that largely fail to report would lose grant money. The cut would be 10 percent of a federal law enforcement grant the next year.
Congressional Summary
This bill establishes a framework to require law enforcement agencies to collect data on the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers.Specifically, it requires federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to collect, compile, and submit to the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Bureau of Justice Statistics data on the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers.DOJ must reduce by 10% the allocation of funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program for a state or local government that fails to substantially comply.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Action Date
- Date Added
- 2026-04-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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