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H.R. 10807House119th Congress (2025-2027)In Committee Trending

Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act

Sponsored by Rashida TlaibRep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
Introduced October 13, 2026

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The Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act bans the use of automated mass‑surveillance technologies—such as license‑plate readers, biometric systems, and facial‑recognition tools—by federal, state, and local agencies that receive federal money. It forces any existing systems funded with federal dollars to be taken down and the data they hold to be destroyed. The law also ties compliance to eligibility for certain federal law‑enforcement grant programs.

Key Provisions

  • Federal funds may not be used to buy, install, maintain, lease, or operate any automated mass‑surveillance system, including license‑plate readers, biometric surveillance, or facial‑recognition technology.
  • Agencies and their employees are prohibited from acquiring, using, or accessing such systems or the data they produce.
  • Any system already in place that was funded with federal money must be removed within 30 days of the law’s enactment.
  • All data collected by prohibited systems must be permanently deleted within 7 days of enactment.
  • Information obtained in violation of the ban cannot be used as evidence in any court or administrative proceeding.
  • States and local governments must certify they do not use these systems to qualify for certain federal grant programs (Byrne and COPS grants).

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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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October 13, 2026

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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.

Oversight and Government Reform Committee

October 13, 2026

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Introduced in HouseIssued October 13, 2026

I

119th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 10807

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. Velázquez, 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

A BILL

To prohibit the use of automated mass surveillance systems and associated components, and for other purposes.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act.

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.