Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Terrorism Act of 2013

Current understanding

Legislative proposal that would direct DHS to develop standardized counterterrorism training curricula for state, local, and tribal law enforcement and require civil-rights/civil-liberties review of any externally sourced counterterrorism training funded through homeland security grant programs. Framed as an oversight measure on existing DHS grant-funded training rather than a new authority or funding stream. Status: introduced (113th Congress); no enacted implementation.

Evidence log

• 2017-03-22 — ALERT Act of 2017: cross-connection with alert-act-2017: Both bills task DHS with assessing and expanding federal support to state and local partners in preventing radicalization and terrorism. (novelty: 2)
• 2015-07-21 — Countering Violent Extremism Grant Program Act of 2015: cross-connection with cve-grant-program-act-2015: Both propose federal support for local/community-level counter-violent-extremism efforts; the CVE Grant Program Act would formalize a DHS grant mechanism aligned with the Empowering Local Partners framework. (novelty: 2)
• 2013-03-27 — Mass Transit Intelligence Prioritization Act: cross-connection with mass-transit-intelligence-prioritization-act: Both direct federal counterterrorism intelligence resources toward state and local partners; the Mass Transit bill narrows a similar model to fusion centers serving transit jurisdictions. (novelty: 2)

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