The Honorable Merrick Garland
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20530
The Honorable Alejandro N. Mayorkas
Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
301 7th St. SW
Washington, D.C. 20528
Re: Assessment of and Revisions to the Anti-Discrimination Policies of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security
Dear Attorney General Garland and Secretary Mayorkas,
On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the undersigned organizations, we commend President Biden’s pledge and actions to enhance equity in our nation, and in particular his directive to you and your departments to “assess the implementation and effects” of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) December 2014 “Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Regarding the Use of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, or Gender Identity”i (2014 Guidance) and to “consider whether this guidance should be updated.”ii We appreciate the discussions many of our organizations have had with your departments already, and strongly urge your departments to seize this opportunity to issue comprehensive and meaningful antidiscrimination policies that finally end biased profiling by your agencies, including in their partnerships with state and local law enforcement.
Specifically, we urge you to issue anti-discrimination rules that:
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