Regulates law enforcement use of facial recognition by requiring court orders, protecting civil rights, and mandating transparency. Prohibits reliance on facial recognition alone for arrests, requires accuracy and bias testing, and establishes reporting, auditing, and public notice requirements.
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This is a binding federal statute introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives with mandatory language throughout, explicit enforcement mechanisms including suppression of evidence, civil actions with damages, administrative discipline, and funding penalties for non-compliance.
The document has good coverage of approximately 8-10 subdomains, with strong focus on unfair discrimination (1.1, 1.3), privacy compromise (2.1), security vulnerabilities (2.2), disinformation and surveillance (4.1), fraud and manipulation (4.3), overreliance and unsafe use (5.1), and lack of robustness (7.3). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination, privacy, malicious use prevention, and AI system reliability domains.
The document primarily governs the Public Administration excluding National Security sector through extensive regulation of law enforcement use of facial recognition. It also has minimal coverage of Information sector (through DMV database requirements) and National Security sector (through limited applicability to federal law enforcement).
The document primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, with significant coverage of Verify and Validate through mandatory testing requirements. It does not substantially address the earlier stages of Plan and Design, Collect and Process Data, or Build and Use Model.
The document explicitly focuses on facial recognition systems and technology. It does not mention AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The scope is narrowly defined around facial recognition technology for law enforcement use.
United States Congress; Mr. Lieu; Ms. Jackson Lee; Ms. Clarke of New York; Mr. Gomez; Mr. Ivey; Mr. Veasey; Committee on the Judiciary; Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
The document is a bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Lieu and co-sponsors, referred to the Judiciary and Science committees for consideration.
Attorney General; courts of competent jurisdiction; Government Accountability Office; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance; Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Multiple federal entities are designated with enforcement authority including the Attorney General (funding penalties), courts (issuing orders and hearing civil actions), GAO (audits), and NIST (testing standards).
Government Accountability Office; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance; independent State agencies
The Act establishes comprehensive monitoring through GAO audits of federal agencies, NIST testing protocols, annual reporting to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and independent state agency audits of state/local agencies.
investigative or law enforcement officers; law enforcement agencies; State and local governments; Federal law enforcement agencies; prosecutors; State departments of motor vehicles
The Act regulates law enforcement use of facial recognition technology, applying to both federal and state/local law enforcement officers and agencies that deploy or use facial recognition systems.
9 subdomains (7 Good, 2 Minimal)