Profiling guidelines to be unveiled
Source: Politico
The Obama administration will Monday unveil its long-anticipated updates to its guidelines on racial profiling, tightening limits on the practice but still allowing federal law enforcement agencies to employ it at airports and along the border.
The new rules replace guidelines created by the Bush administration in 2003, which banned racial profiling for federal law enforcement, but included broad exemptions for national security and border security. The Bush rules applied only to race, but the new policy also bans profiling on the basis of religion, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identification.
The release of the new guidelines comes at a moment of heightened national attention on the role that race plays in law enforcement, amid continued protests spurred by the killings of black men in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, by white police officers.
But it has been in the making for more than five years, with Attorney General Eric Holder pressing to complete the project before his departure from the Justice Department, expected early next year. During the past two weeks, it was the first agenda item at his daily senior staff morning meetings, a department official said, adding: “It will be one of the signature accomplishments of his tenure.”
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