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This bill, the ERRPA End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2021, aims to eliminate racial, religious, and other discriminatory profiling by law enforcement. Key provisions include: - Prohibiting law enforcement from engaging in racial profiling and providing civil remedies for violations. - Requiring federal law enforcement agencies to have policies and procedures to eliminate racial profiling, including data collection and training. - Requiring state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to have similar policies and procedures to receive certain federal funding. - Authorizing the Attorney General to issue regulations for data collection and reporting on racial profiling practices. - Establishing a demonstration project for data collection and analysis on stop and search rates. - Providing grants to state and local agencies to develop best practices to eliminate racial profiling. The bill also includes provisions to protect individual privacy in the data collection process and requires regular reports to Congress on the status of implementation and findings on racial profiling nationwide.

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