National Statistics on Deadly Force Transparency Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill would require the Attorney General to create national rules for tracking every time a law enforcement officer uses deadly force. The system would cover federal, state, and local police and must be set up within six months of the bill becoming law.
• Police departments would need to report detailed information about each incident, including the race, gender, age, and religion of both the officer and the person targeted. They would also need to describe why deadly force was used and whether non-lethal methods were tried first.
• To protect privacy, the names and identifying information of officers and civilians would be kept out of public reports and would be exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests. Only the aggregate data and statistics would be shared publicly.
• State and local agencies that fail to comply with the reporting requirements face a 10% cut to their federal Byrne JAG grant funding, creating a financial incentive for participation.
• All collected data must be kept on file by law enforcement agencies for at least four years, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics is responsible for making the data available to both Congress and the public.