1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Biometric Surveillance by Law Enforcement Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Facial recognition and other biometric surveillance technology pose unique and significant threats to the civil rights and civil liberties of residents and visitors. (2) The use of facial recognition and other biometric surveillance is the functional equivalent of requiring every person to show a personal photo identification card at all times in violation of recognized constitutional rights. This technology also allows people to be tracked without consent. (3) It would also generate massive databases about law-abiding Americans, and may chill the exercise of free speech in public places. (4) Facial recognition and other biometric surveillance technology has been repeatedly demonstrated to misidentify women, young people, and people of color and to create an elevated risk of harmful “false positive” identifications. (5) Facial and other biometric surveillance would corrupt the core purpose of officer-worn body-worn cameras by transforming those devices from transparency and accountability tools into roving surveillance systems. (6) The use of facial recognition and other biometric surveillance would disproportionately impact the civil rights and civil liberties of persons who live in highly policed communities. (7) Its use would also diminish effective policing and public safety by discouraging people in these communities, including victims of crime, undocumented persons, people with unpaid fines and fees, and those with prior criminal history from seeking police assistance or from assisting the police. 3. Prohibiting use of facial recognition technology and other biometric surveillance systems (a) Byrne Grant (1) Prohibition A State or unit of local government may not use facial recognition technology or other biometric surveillance systems on any image acquired by body-worn cameras of law enforcement officers. (2) Enforcement In the case that a State or unit of local