Category Archives: Racial Profiling

Bill text: To amend title 23, United States Code, to require States to adopt and enforce standards that prohibit the use of racial profiling in the enforcement of State laws regulating the use of Federal-aid highways, and for other purposes., 2001

Bill text: To prohibit racial profiling., 2001

Bill text: To authorize the Attorney General to carry out a racial profiling education and awareness program within the Department of Justice and to assist state and local law enforcement agencies in implementing such programs., 2002

Bill text: To provide grants to States in order to prevent racial profiling, 2012

Bill text: To eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes., 2011

Bill text: To eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes., 2015

Bill text: To eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes., 2017

Bill text: To eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes., 2019

Congressional Hearing: Hearing before the Subcom on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights to examine incidence, scope, and use of racial profiling by law enforcement agents and agencies that target minority groups for routine traffic stops and subject them to inappropriate questioning and searches., 2012

CRS Report: Discusses new guidance issued by the Department of Justice to prevent discriminatory profiling by Federal law enforcement agencies, encompassing a series of changes to racial profiling guidance issued in 2003., 2015

CRS Report: Provides a short bibliography of CRS and other materials on racial profiling., 2003

CRS Report: Addresses constitutional and Federal law constraints on racial profiling, describes existing enforcement actions, and highlights selected proposals for Congressional action., 2020

CRS Report: Analyzes the debate about racial profiling, and reviews legislative proposals on racial profiling before the 107th and 108th Congresses., 2004

CRS Report: Reviews State laws to define, prohibit, or prevent racial profiling. Outlines various State legislative approaches to deal with the issue, including defining racial profiling; express prohibition; data collection, analysis, and reporting; training; public education and awareness; changes in law enforcement policies and procedures; technology and equipment; complaint procedures; penalties for noncompliance; and funding., 2003

Congressional Hearing: Hearing before the Subcom on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights to consider S. 821 (text, p. 65-68), the Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act of 1999, to require the Department of Justice to conduct a study, based on police data, of the race and other characteristics of drivers stopped for alleged traffic violations and the rationale for subsequent vehicle searches. Bill responds to concerns that police unfairly target African American men and other minorities for routine traffic stops and search their vehicles for contraband, including drugs., 2000

Congressional Hearing: Hearing before the Subcom on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights to consider S. 989, the End Racial Profiling Act of 2001, to prohibit racial profiling by law enforcement agents or agencies and to authorize Department of Justice grants to State and local governments to assist them in their compliance with racially neutral administration of justice requirements., 2001