[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Gary7

I hope everyone can take the time to read the guidelines in the link posted by Tennisnut in post #25.
If you read the entire 12 pages (which includes 17 examples), then I would hope that you may consider that this law is fine. It states that law enforcement can profile on specific cases such as crime, homeland security, etc ... however, they cannot, as an example, profile people in a routine traffic stop just because they want to profile a certain segment of the population.

A one-sentence excerpt:
"In conducting all activities other than routine or spontaneous law enforcement activities, Federal law enforcement officers may consider race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity only to the extent that there is trustworthy information, relevant to the locality or time frame, that links persons possessing a particular listed characteristic to an identified criminal incident, scheme, or organization, a threat to national or homeland security, a violation of Federal immigration law, or an authorized intelligence activity."

"Trustworthy information" seems a debatable term. Who decides whether information was trustworthy, the media, law enforcement, the public?