Sec. 208. Department of Homeland Security support for the national network of fusion centers
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Section 210A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 124h ) is amended— in subsection (b)(1), by inserting , including relating to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties training, after advice and assistance ; in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following new paragraph: The Chief Privacy Officer of the Department and the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Department, in coordination with the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall, to the maximum extent practicable, assign personnel to assist the fusion centers that participate in the State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative, including employees of such fusion centers who are responsible for privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties efforts within such fusion centers. ; by redesignating subsections
(k)and
(l)as subsections
(n)and (o), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(j)the following new subsections: Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall disseminate to each fusion center participating in the State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative and receiving a grant from the Department guidance on conducting a self-assessment with respect to adherence to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties polices, including training. Not later than August 31, 2022, and annually thereafter, such fusion centers shall submit to the Secretary such self-assessments. Not later than September 30, 2022, and annually thereafter, the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall submit to the Inspector General of the Department the self-assessments submitted to the Under Secretary. Not later than 90 days after the receipt of the self-assessments, and annually thereafter, the Inspector General shall review a representative sampling, as determined by the Inspector General, of the policies, practices, and performance with respect to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of the fusion centers participating in the State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative to determine such centers’ adherence to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties polices, including training. Each such review shall take into consideration the self-assessments of the fusion centers so sampled and reviewed. The Inspector General shall annually rotate the fusion centers subject to such sampling and review, and shall endeavor to sample and review fusion centers that are diverse with respect to the metropolitan areas, States, or regions in which such fusion centers operate. Beginning on the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Comptroller General of the United States shall triennially submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a review of the use of emerging technologies, including facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, by fusion centers participating in the State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative, and the effects of such technologies on the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of the American public. Each such review shall evaluate not fewer than— three such fusion centers that serve high-risk urban areas (as such term is defined in section 2003); and two State fusion centers. .
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Department of Homeland Security support for the national network of fusion centers
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