Bill > S1056

This bill, the End Racial Profiling Act of 2015, aims to prohibit law enforcement officers and agencies from engaging in racial profiling, which is defined as using a person's actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation in routine or spontaneous investigatory activities, unless there is specific, trustworthy information linking the person to a criminal incident. The bill grants individuals or the United States the right to sue for relief if they are harmed by racial profiling. It requires federal law enforcement agencies to implement policies and procedures to eliminate racial profiling and cease any existing practices that allow it. Furthermore, state and local governments seeking grants from programs like the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program and the Cops on the Beat Program must certify they have policies in place to prevent racial profiling and have eliminated any such practices. The Attorney General is authorized to award grants for collecting data on racial profiling and developing best practices to combat it, and will issue regulations for data collection and the implementation of the Act.