Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices To Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety

The order directs all federal law enforcement agencies to ban chokeholds and carotid restraints except where deadly force is authorized, restrict no-knock entries, adopt updated use-of-force policies, issue body-worn camera policies, and provide annual anti-bias training to officers. It directs the Attorney General to establish a National Law Enforcement Accountability Database within 240 days, consolidating records of officer misconduct, terminations, civil judgments, and commendations; federal agencies must consult the database in hiring and promotion decisions. It revokes Executive Order 13809, which had restored military equipment transfers to local police, and Executive Order 13929, a prior policing framework, and restricts federal agencies from transferring or funding the purchase of a specific list of military-grade items — including .50-caliber weapons, grenade launchers, weaponized drones, and combat-configured aircraft — for state and local law enforcement.

The order also establishes a Federal Interagency Alternatives and Reentry Committee, chaired by the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, to coordinate criminal justice reform across more than twenty cabinet departments and offices. It directs studies on facial recognition and predictive policing technologies, an HHS nationwide study on the community health effects of police use of force, full implementation of the First Step Act, improvements to conditions of confinement in federal prisons, and a review of federal grant programs to condition funding on adoption of the order's policing standards by state and local agencies.

All federal law enforcement agencies and their officers face binding new conduct requirements. State, tribal, local, and territorial law enforcement agencies face guidance and grant incentives tied to compliance. People currently incarcerated in federal facilities, and people leaving incarceration, are affected by reentry and conditions-of-confinement provisions. Communities of color are specifically identified as the primary populations the order seeks to protect.

Federal officers face immediate legal limits on chokeholds, no-knock raids, and use of force. A national misconduct database will shape hiring across all federal agencies and encourage the same at state and local agencies. Local police departments that do not align with the order's standards risk losing federal grant funding. People leaving federal prison gain new coordination of reentry support across federal programs.

Federal LEAs face hard near-term deadlines — 60 days for no-knock policies, 90 days for chokehold bans and body-camera policies. The Attorney General builds the accountability database within 240 days; federal agencies then have 60 days from database launch to begin quarterly misconduct submissions. An OPM-chaired interagency working group on recruitment publishes a reform action plan at one year, after which agencies have 180 days to update policies. The Reentry Committee coordinates more than twenty agencies and must publish a strategic plan within 200 days. Federal grant programs become a compliance lever for state and local agencies, with grant agencies reviewing their programs within 180 days and reporting to DOJ's Civil Rights Division.