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B26-0381 • 2025

Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Technical Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Technical Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Allen
Last action
2025-11-07
Official status
Enacted
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The exact date Section 2 expires depends on an undefined future event: the applicability of section 105 of D.C. Law 24-345.

Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Technical Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

This emergency law temporarily changes the Police Complaints Board membership, allows officials to file their own complaints about police misconduct not mentioned in original reports, and clarifies that certain rules only apply when a victim is under age 18.

What This Bill Does

  • Expands the Police Complaints Board from five members to nine members, including one member from each Ward and one at-large member.
  • Requires that after current terms end, no board members can be affiliated with any law enforcement agency.
  • Allows the Executive Director of the Office of Citizen Complaint Review to file their own complaint if they find evidence of police abuse or misuse of power not mentioned in an original report.
  • Includes failure to intervene when seeing another officer use excessive force as a reason for filing a new complaint.
  • Includes failure to immediately report rule violations by other officers as a reason for filing a new complaint.
  • Clarifies that specific sections of District law regarding victims only apply if the victim is under 18 years old.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Members of the Police Complaints Board
  • The Executive Director of the Office of Citizen Complaint Review
  • Metropolitan Police Department officers and supervisors
  • Victims who are under the age of 18

Terms To Know

Police Complaints Board
A group established to review complaints against police officers.
Executive Director
The head of the Office of Citizen Complaint Review who can now start their own complaint if they find new evidence of abuse or misuse of power.
Ward
One of the eight geographic areas that make up Washington, D.C., each represented on the Board.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This act is an emergency measure and will remain in effect for no longer than 90 days after approval.
  • The changes to Police Complaints Board membership expire when a specific section of another law passed in 2023 becomes applicable.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-07 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Act A26-0177 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 012393, Expires on Jan 28, 2026

  2. 2025-10-30 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Enacted without Mayor's Signature with Act Number A26-0177, Expires on Jan 28, 2026

  3. 2025-10-28 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Returned from Mayor

  4. 2025-10-15 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Transmitted to Mayor, Response Due on Oct 29, 2025

  5. 2025-10-07 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  6. 2025-10-07 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  7. 2025-10-06 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    B26-0381 Introduced by Councilmember Allen at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Technical Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL
AN ACT
D.C. ACT 26-177
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
OCTOBER 30, 2025
Toamend,onanemergencybasis,theOfficeofCitizenComplaintReviewEstablishmentActof
1998toexpandthemembershipofthePoliceComplaintsBoard,andtoallowtheOfficeofPoliceComplaints’ExecutiveDirectortoinitiatetheirowncomplaintiftheydiscoverevidenceofabuseormisuseofpolicepowersthatwasnotallegedintheoriginalcomplaint,includingthefailuretointerveneorreporttoasupervisorwhenanotherofficerusedexcessiveforce,engagedinotherformsofmisconduct,orviolatedaruleor
regulation;andtoamendChapter3ofTitle14oftheDistrictofColumbiaOfficialCodetoclarifythatcertainprovisionsonlyapplytoavictimwhoisundertheageof18.
BEITENACTEDBY THECOUNCILOFTHEDISTRICTOFCOLUMBIA,Thatthisactmaybecitedasthe“ComprehensivePolicingandJusticeReformTechnicalEmergency
AmendmentActof2025”,
Sec.2.TheOfficeofCitizenComplaintReviewEstablishmentActof1998,effective
March26,1999(D.C.Law12-208;D.C.OfficialCode§5-1101etseq.),isamendedasfollows:
(a)Section4(D.C.OfficialCode§5-1103)isamendedbyaddinganewparagraph(3B)
toreadasfollows:
“(3B)“MPD”meanstheMetropolitanPoliceDepartment.”.
(b)Section5(a)(D.C.OfficialCode§5-1104(a))isamendedbystrikingthephrase“ThereisestablishedaPoliceComplaintsBoard(“Board”).TheBoardshallbecomposedof5members,oneofwhomshallbeamemberoftheMPD,and4ofwhomshallhavenocurrentaffiliationwithanylawenforcementagency.”andinsertingthephrase“Thereisestablisheda
PoliceComplaintsBoard.‘TheBoardshallbecomposedof9members,whichshallincludeonememberfromeachWardandoneat-largemember,noneofwhom,aftertheexpirationofthetermofthecurrentlyservingmemberoftheMPD,shallbeaffiliatedwithanylawenforcement
agency.”initsplace.
(c)Section8(D.C.OfficialCode§5-1107)isamendedasfollows:
(1)A newsubsection(g-1)isaddedtoreadasfollows:
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ENROLLED ORIGINAL
“(g-1)(1)IftheExecutiveDirectordiscoversevidenceofabuseormisuseofpolicepowersthatwasnotallegedbythecomplainantinthecomplaint,theExecutiveDirectormay:
“(A)InitiatetheExecutiveDirector’sowncomplaintagainstthesubjectpoliceofficer;and
“@B)Takeanyoftheactionsdescribedinsubsection(g)(2)through(6)ofthissection.
“(2)Theauthoritygrantedpursuanttoparagraph(1)ofthissubsectionshallincludecircumstancesinwhichthesubjectpoliceofficerfailedto:
(A)Interveneinorsubsequentlyreportanyuseofforceincidentinwhichthesubjectpoliceofficerobservedanotherlawenforcementofficer,includinganMPD officer,utilizingexcessiveforceorengaginginanytypeofmisconduct,pursuanttoMPD GeneralOrder901.07,itssuecessordirective,orasimilarlocalorfederaldirective;or
“(B)ImmediatelyreporttotheirsupervisoranyviolationsoftherulesandregulationsoftheMPD committedbyanyotherMPD officer,andeachinstanceoftheiruseofforceorauseofforcecommittedbyanotherMPD officer,pursuanttoMPD GeneralOrder201.26,oranysuccessordirective.”,
(2)Subsection(h)isamendedbystrikingthephrase“subsection(g)”andinsertingthephrase“subsection(g)or(g-1)”initsplace,
Sec.3.Chapter3ofTitle14oftheDistrictofColumbiaOfficialCodeisamendedas
follows:
(a)Section14-310(b)(4)isamendedasfollows:
(1)Subparagraph(B)isamendedbystrikingthephrase“whomthevictimhas”andinsertingthephrase“whoma victimunder18yearsofagehas”initsplace.
(2)Subparagraph(C)isamendedbystrikingthephrase“thevictim”andinserting
thephrase“avictimwhoisunder18yearsofage”initsplace.
(b)Section14-311(b)(4)isamendedasfollows:
(1)Subparagraph(B)isamendedbystrikingthephrase“withwhomthevictimhas”andinsertingthephrase“withwhomavictimunder18yearsofagehas”initsplace.
(2)Subparagraph(C)isamendedbystrikingthephrase“thevictim”andinsertingthephrase“avictimwhoisunder18yearsofage”initsplace.
(©)Section14-312(b)(5)isamendedasfollows:
(1)Subparagraph(B)isamendedbystrikingthephrase“withwhomthesexualassaultvictimhas”andinsertingthephrase“withwhomasexualassaultvictimunder18yearsofagehas”initsplace.
(2)Subparagraph(C)isamendedbystrikingthephrase“thesexualassaultvictim”andinsertingthephrase“asexualassaultvictimwhoisunder18yearsofage”initsplace.
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ENROLLED ORIGINAL
Sec.4.Applicability.
Section2shallexpireontheapplicabilitydateofsection105oftheComprehensivePolicingandJusticeReformAmendmentActof2022,effectiveApril21,2023(D.C.Law24-345;70DCR953).
Sec.5.Fiscalimpactstatement.
TheCounciladoptsthefiscalimpactstatementoftheBudgetDirectorasthefiscalimpactstatementrequiredbysection4aoftheGeneralLegislativeProceduresActof1975,approvedOctober16,2006(120Stat.2038;D.C.OfficialCode§1-301.47a).
Sec.6,Effectivedate.
ThisactshalltakeeffectfollowingapprovalbytheMayor(orintheeventofvetobytheMayor,actionbytheCounciltooverridetheveto)andshallremainineffectfornolongerthan90days,asprovidedforemergencyactsoftheCounciloftheDistrictofColumbiainsection412(a)oftheDistrictofColumbiaHomeRuleAct,approvedDecember24,1973(87Stat.788;
D.C.OfficialCode§1-204.12(a)).
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DOACTION FinalReading
[X]VOTEDATE October7,2025,
[X]VOICEVOTE Approved
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