Sec. 202. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board
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Not later than 2 years after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and in consultation with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board and the Advisory Board, shall develop and incorporate any necessary changes to all training, curriculum, and professional certification classes to ensure consistency with the requirements of this Act.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center shall identify, develop, and update as necessary, model practices that prevent racial profiling practices. The Board shall widely disseminate to, and incorporate these practices into the law enforcement community through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Model Practice Clearinghouse and other means. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board, in consultation with the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, shall develop a standard of review of anti-racial profiling components of law enforcement training curricula.
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board shall incorporate into the accreditation process a review that shall include at a minimum— the sufficiency of the anti-racial profiling training curriculum; procedures implemented by the applicant to identify racial profiling practices by the applicant, if any; procedures implemented by the applicant to prevent racial profiling practices by the applicant, or its individual agents or officers; the sufficiency of the applicant’s remedial measures and disciplinary guidelines to prevent racial profiling practices; and the capacity of the applicant to collect and maintain civil rights data as defined by title VII of this Act.
The Board shall deny accreditation or reaccreditation to academies, programs, and instructors not meeting the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation Board’s standards prepared under subsection (c).