HR 5361
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2025
TL;DR
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) reintroduced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a broad police reform bill that includes restrictions on how federal law enforcement uses AI-powered tools like facial recognition and predictive policing. While primarily a policing bill, it would set new limits on biometric surveillance technology and require federal accreditation standards for law enforcement tech vendors.
How This Might Impact Your Business
Facial recognition vendors selling to federal law enforcement would face new restrictions, particularly on real-time biometric surveillance during patrols and body camera footage analysis.
Predictive policing software companies (like those selling risk assessment or crime forecasting tools) could see federal contracts limited or subject to new bias auditing requirements.
Body camera manufacturers and video analytics firms would need to comply with new data handling, retention, and AI analysis restrictions on footage.
State and local police departments receiving federal grants may need to certify their AI tools meet new standards, indirectly affecting vendors serving that $15B+ market.
Companies providing biometric identification services (fingerprint, iris, gait recognition) to federal agencies would face procurement hurdles and possible use restrictions.
No specific penalty structure for private vendors yet; impact flows through federal contracting eligibility and grant conditions on state/local buyers.
Bill is early in the process (just referred to committee), so specific AI provisions could change significantly before any floor vote.
What Should You Do
If you sell facial recognition, predictive policing, or biometric tools to law enforcement, have your government affairs team pull the full bill text and flag any provisions touching your product line.
Sales leaders at public safety tech companies should brief federal and state government customers on potential procurement changes and start scenario planning for restricted-use configurations.
Legal teams should review existing federal law enforcement contracts for termination or modification clauses tied to new statutory requirements.
Monitor Judiciary Committee activity; given the bill's history (previously passed the House in 2021 but died in Senate), track whether it gets a markup or stalls.
Product teams building AI for law enforcement should document bias testing and audit trails now, since federal accreditation standards are a likely outcome even if this specific bill fails.
Who It Affects
Sponsors
Status Timeline
committee
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
September 15, 2025