[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10807 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 10807
To prohibit the use of automated mass surveillance systems and
associated components, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 13, 2026
Ms. Tlaib (for herself, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania,
Ms. Omar, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Velazquez, and Mrs. Watson Coleman)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To prohibit the use of automated mass surveillance systems and
associated components, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Get the Flock Out of Our Communities
Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF AUTOMATED MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS.
(a) Prohibition on Use of Federal Funds.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, no Federal funds made available before, on, or after
the date of the enactment of this Act for any fiscal year or otherwise
made available to any agency, State, or unit of local government may be
obligated, expended, reprogrammed, or transferred to purchase, deploy,
install, maintain, access, lease, or operate any automated mass
surveillance system, including any of the following:
(1) Automatic license plate reader or associated component.
(2) Biometric surveillance system.
(3) Facial recognition technology.
(b) Prohibition on Use of Automated Mass Surveillance Systems.--An
agency, or employee or officer of an agency acting in an official
capacity may not acquire, possess, access, solicit, or use in the
United States--
(1) any automated mass surveillance system; or
(2) information derived from an automated mass surveillance
system.
(c) Removal.--Each agency, State, or unit of local government that
purchases, deploys, installs, maintains, leases or operates or is in
the process of purchasing, deploying, installing, maintaining, leasing,
or operating any automated mass surveillance system using Federal funds
shall remove or order a lessee to remove any such automated mass
surveillance system not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(d) Disposal of Data.--An agency, State, or unit of local
government or employee or officer of an agency, State, or unit of local
government acting in an official capacity that possesses automated mass
surveillance data prohibited under subsections (a) or (b) shall
permanently delete such data not later than 7 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act.
(e) Inadmissibility.--Any data obtained in violation of this
section may not be admitted into evidence in any court or
administrative proceeding.
(f) Eligibility for Certain Federal Grants.--
(1) Certification required for certain grants.--An
application by a State or a unit of local government for
funding under a covered program shall include a certification
that such State, unit of local government, and any law
enforcement agency to which the State or unit of local
government will distribute funds, does not maintain, access,
lease, or operate any automated mass surveillance system or
information derived from an automated mass surveillance system.
(2) Eligibility for certain grants.--A State or unit of
local government shall be ineligible for funding under a
covered program without providing the certification described
under subsection (b).
(g) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given that
term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
(2) Associated component.--The term ``associated
component'', with respect to an automated mass surveillance
system, includes any product, service, hardware, software,
algorithm, database, communications network, cloud-based
service, or data analysis platform of, or used in connection
with, such system to collect, store, process, analyze, compare,
query, match, transmit, share, or retrieve data collected or
generated by such system, including biometric data.
(3) Automated mass surveillance system.--The term
``automated mass surveillance system'' means any automated
system or technology that acquires, processes, collects,
analyzes, generates, retains, uses, or stores information or
data on an indefinite or large number of people.
(4) Automatic license plate reader.--The term ``automatic
license plate reader'' means any camera or camera system
product or service that automatically captures license plate
data of vehicles, and any associated information.
(5) Biometric surveillance system.--The term ``biometric
surveillance system'' means any computer software that performs
facial recognition or other remote biometric recognition in
real time or on a recording or photograph that allows or
confirms the unique identification or verification of an
individual and is generated from the measurement or processing
of unique biological, physical, or physiological
characteristics, including any of the following:
(A) Fingerprint.
(B) Voice print.
(C) Iris or retina imagery scan.
(D) Facial or hand mapping, geometry, or template.
(E) Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
(F) Gait.
(6) Byrne grant program.--The term ``Byrne grant program''
means any grant program under subpart 1 of part E of title I of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34
U.S.C. 10151 et seq.), without regard to whether the funds are
characterized as being made available under the Edward Byrne
Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Programs,
the Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Program, the
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, or
otherwise.
(7) Cops grant program.--The term ``COPS grant program''
means the grant program authorized under section 1701 of title
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34
U.S.C. 10381).
(8) Covered program.--The term ``covered program'' means
any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds
made available under--
(A) a Byrne grant program; and
(B) the COPS grant program.
(9) Facial recognition technology.--The term ``facial
recognition technology'' means technology that facilitates or
otherwise enables an automated or semi-automated process that
assists in identifying an individual based on the physical
characteristics of the face of the individual, or that logs
characteristics of the face, head, or body of an individual to
infer emotion, associations, activities, or the location of an
individual.
(10) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the several
States, the District of Columbia, and each commonwealth,
territory, or possession of the United States.
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