Some border security enforcement and airline screeners will not have to follow new federal profiling rules expected to be announced next week, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce next week changes to rules concerning racial profiling by federal law enforcement. The revisions would ban profiling, even for national security cases, and expand the definition to include religion and national origin.
But the Transportation Security Administration and the Customs and Border Protection agency will be exempt from the new Justice Department rules, sources told the Post.
The revisions come in the wake of controversial non-indictments of police officers for killing black men in Ferguson, Mo. and New York City.
The DOJ has reportedly been working on the revisions for five years, and civil rights activists have been pressuring the administration for even longer.
President George W. Bush banned profiling in 2003, but exempted national security cases. This decision would partially close that loophole.
