Establishment of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
Signed December 18, 2014·Barack Obama·79 FR 76865
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Establishes a President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, made up of up to eleven presidentially appointed members with expertise in law enforcement, civil rights, and civil liberties, including two Co-Chairs. The Task Force is directed to identify best practices and recommend ways policing can reduce crime while building public trust, holding public meetings and engaging federal, state, tribal, and local officials, technical advisors, and nongovernmental organizations. It is purely advisory and must submit a report to the President by March 2, 2015. The Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services serves as Executive Director, and the Department of Justice provides administrative and logistical support, subject to available funding. Members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The Task Force terminates 30 days after the President requests a final report, and the Attorney General performs certain functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act on the President's behalf.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to identify the best means to provide an effective partnership between law enforcement and local communities that reduces crime and increases trust, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13684 of December 18, 2014
Establishment of the President's Task Force on
21st Century Policing
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to identify the best means to
provide an effective partnership between law
enforcement and local communities that reduces crime
and increases trust, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment. There is established a
President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing (Task
Force).
Sec. 2. Membership. (a) The Task Force shall be
composed of not more than eleven members appointed by
the President. The members shall include distinguished
individuals with relevant experience or subject-matter
expertise in law enforcement, civil rights, and civil
liberties.
(b) The President shall designate two members of
the Task Force to serve as Co-Chairs.
Sec. 3. Mission. (a) The Task Force shall, consistent
with applicable law, identify best practices and
otherwise make recommendations to the President on how
policing practices can promote effective crime
reduction while building public trust.
(b) The Task Force shall be solely advisory and
shall submit a report to the President by March 2,
2015.
Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The Task Force shall hold
public meetings and engage with Federal, State, tribal,
and local officials, technical advisors, and
nongovernmental organizations, among others, as
necessary to carry out its mission.
(b) The Director of the Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services shall serve as Executive
Director of the Task Force and shall, as directed by
the Co-Chairs, convene regular meetings of the Task
Force and supervise its work.
(c) In carrying out its mission, the Task Force
shall be informed by, and shall strive to avoid
duplicating, the efforts of other governmental
entities.
(d) The Department of Justice shall provide
administrative services, funds, facilities, staff,
equipment, and other support services as may be
necessary for the Task Force to carry out its mission
to the extent permitted by law and subject to the
availability of appropriations.
(e) Members of the Task Force shall serve without
any additional compensation for their work on the Task
Force, but shall be allowed travel expenses, including
per diem, to the extent permitted by law for persons
serving intermittently in the Government service (5
U.S.C. 5701-5707).
Sec. 5. Termination. The Task Force shall terminate 30
days after the President requests a final report from
the Task Force.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to a department, agency, or the head
thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(c) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
as amended (5 U.S.C. App.) (the “Act”) may apply to
the Task Force, any functions of the President under
the Act, except for those in section 6 of the Act,
shall be performed by the Attorney General.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 18, 2014.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 18, 2014. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.