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CLEAN DC Act of 2025
HR 5107
Dusty Wilson
November 18, 2025
What is this bill?
HR 5107, sponsored by Andrew Clyde (R-GA-9)
co-sponsored by Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28)
The Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now (CLEAN) in DC Act of 2025 isn’t just a horribly strained acronym, it’s also one of the most fascist anti-DC bills to get a vote this entire session. This 1-page law would repeal 24 of the 26 subtitles of DC’s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022.
What makes this bill fascist?
The CPJRA Act of 2022 (no clue if that’s even a common acronym for it, but can’t be worse than C(S)LEAN(in)), is an exceptionally long bill. For the sake of ease, I’m going to go subtitle by subtitle to summarize what is being repealed.
Before I do though, I do want to say that for fascism to flourish, the federal government needs complete buy-in from allied police. Police unions have shown a deep devotion to Trump and cops in Los Angeles, New York City, & Chicago, have all shown that they are more than willing to work alongside DHS, CBP, and ICE to terrorize people. Any law that would increase local police power and reduce accountability will inevitably aid in strengthening fascism. By that metric alone, this bill is fascist.
That said, here is a very brief summary of the bill that HR 5107 would mostly repeal:
Subtitle A: Prohibiting the use of asphyxiating restraints and neck restraints
Thankfully, this is one of the two subtitles that is spared from HR 5107.
Subtitle B: Improving access to body-worn camera video recordings
Features a ton of amendments to previous laws with the goal of making it easier to attain footage from police body cameras & establish a 5 business day turnaround for footage of “…an officer-involved death or the serious use of force.”
Subtitle C: Office of Police Complaints reforms
Repealing this subtitle weirdly lessens certain police power. Under this subtitle, the DC Housing Authority PD and the Office of the Inspector General were both given authorization to carry firearms and were given the right to make arrests.
This subtitle established a 9-member Police Complaints Board to “conduct periodic reviews of the complaint review process and make recommendations.” The Board was also given authority to review in-custody deaths.
Subtitle D: Use of Force Review Board membership expansion
Sets the board size to 13 people
7 members of the MPD of the rank of Inspector or above
3 civilian members appointed by the Mayor, of which:
1 is a victim of a use of force violation by a cop
1 is a member of the DC Bar Association in good standing
1 lives in DC
2 civilian members appointed by the city council, of which:
1 is an expert on criminal justice policy
1 is an expert on law enforcement oversight and use of force
the Executive Director of the Office of Police Complaints
Subtitle E. Anti-Mask Law Repeal
Subtitle F. Limitations on consent searches
Established rules in order to conduct a consent search. Cops were required say that a search was entirely at the consent of the person and that they were legally allowed to say no without punishment. Promises or threats cannot be made to sway the person. Interpretation services have to be supplied if someone is not fluent in English or is deaf. Finally, if any of these steps are missing from body-cam footage or not provided in writing, then the search is illegal and any evidence found is disqualified.
Subtitle G. Mandatory continuing education expansion; reconstructing the police officers standards and training board
Lots of amendments here, but the general gist is this subtitle adds education on racism, white supremacy, and de-escalation tactics into police training.
Subtitle H. Identification of MPD officers during first amendment assemblies as local law enforcement
You got to have an easily visible name tag and badge number on uniforms & riot gear during protests.
Subtitle I. Preserving the right to jury trial
This is an amendment for deciding who is constitutionally eligible for a trial by jury and who has a trial decided by one judge. It extends the right to a trial by jury if the defendant claims to have been victimized by a law enforcement officer during apprehension or interrogation.
Subtitle J. Repeal of failure to arrest crime
Repealed 5-115.03 of the DC Code, which would charge a cop for not attempting to make an arrest if they see someone commit a crime.
Subtitle K. Amending minimum standards for police officers
Adds three things that would make someone ineligible to be a DC cop:
if you had committed ‘serious misconduct’
if you were fired or forced to resign from a previous department for disciplinary reasons
if you resigned from a department to ‘avoid potential, proposed, or pending adverse disciplinary action or termination.’
According to USA Today, this resulted in the immediate dismissal of 12 DC cops
Subtitle L. Police accountability and collective bargaining agreements
“All matters pertaining to the discipline of sworn law enforcement personnel shall be retained by management and not be negotiable through bargaining, including substantive or impacts-and-effects bargaining.”
Subtitle M. Officer discipline reforms
The MPD is required to publish, via website, the schedule for ‘adverse action hearings’ for any cop at risk of termination.
Subtitle N. Use of force reforms
Only allowed to use deadly use of force (which is defined as force intended to cause serious bodily harm or death) if:
the officer truly believes its the only option to protect themselves and others from serious bodily injury or death
that the context of the situation made deadly force reasonable
that all other options had been exhausted or were impossible in the moment
This subtitle also gives directions to juries deciding on the legality of deadly use of force and sets the exact bars a cop has to clear for his actions to have been legal.
Subtitle O. Restrictions on the Purchase and Use of Military Weaponry
Bans the MPD from buying .50 caliber or higher guns & ammunition, armored vehicles, bayonets, explosives, firearm silencers, grenade launchers, and drones from the US military
Subtitle P. Limitations on the use of internationally banned chemical weapons, riot gear, and less-lethal projectiles
Still a lot of room to cop riot in this subtitle, but it does state that there has to be at least three calls, via loudspeaker, to disperse a crowd due to unlawful assembly before cops can use any force.
Cops are only allowed to use riot gear if the Incident Commander believes cops are at risk of ‘significant bodily injury.’
Cops are only allowed to use less-lethals if there is a threat of bodily injury to cops or another person OR if there is damage to property. This law also counts things like tear gas as a ‘less-lethal projectile.’
Subtitle Q. Evaluating bias in threat assessments
Ordered a study to be conducted to look into bias policing in the MPD. The study is already completed and repealing this doesn’t really do anything. More so a symbolic repeal.
Subtitle R. Preventing white supremacy in policing
Called for an assessment of white nationalism in the MPD. The report was finished and this is a symbolic repeal.
Subtitle S. Limitations on the use of vehicular pursuits by law enforcement officers
Good news is that this is the second subtitle spared by HR 5107. Bad news is that this specific section is in line to be repealed by the DC Policing Protection Act of 2025. This bill passed the House on September 17th, 2025 with the support of 29 Democrats. It has yet to get on the Senate docket.
Subtitle T. School police incident oversight and accountability
Lots of amendments here. Most seem aimed at better and less biased reporting of arrests at schools.
Subtitle U. Opioid overdose prevention
Amends the Drug Paraphernalia Act of 1982 so that “it shall not be unlawful for District government employees, contractors, and grantees, acting within the scope of their employment, contract, or grant, to deliver, or possess with intent to deliver, drug paraphernalia for the personal use of a controlled substance."
Subtitle V. Metropolitan Police Department overtime spending transparency
MPD has to submit reports on overtime pay to the city council every two pay periods.
Subtitle W. MPD Cadet Program Expansion
Amends details of the program.
Subtitle X. Public release of records related to misconduct and discipline
Can’t deny a FOIA request because it might effect an officer’s privacy.
Subtitle Y. Limiting application of Duncan Ordinance and other limitations on data-sharing
Allows MPD to share records to departments in the DC government for the purpose of reducing gun violence
Subtitle Z: Deputy Auditor for Public Safety
Establishes this new position that reviews the complaint review process
I should also note, this is the second time that Congress has attempted to end this bill. In 2023, Andrew Clyde introduced House Joint Resolution 42 as a first attempt to block the bill before it had a chance to actually begin. It passed the House 229-189 (with the support of 14 Democrats), passed the Senate 56-43 (with the support of 6 Democrats), but was vetoed by Joe Biden. The House tried to overrule the veto (which needs a 2/3rds majority), but failed 233-197 (with 13 Dems voting yea).
Which Dems voted for this?
The vote will come either Wednesday or Thursday, but as I just stated, we have a very recent vote that can help decide which current Dems are most likely to vote yes.
Current House members who voted yea last time were Nikki Budzinski (IL), Angie Craig (MN), Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Jared Golden (ME), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Susie Lee (NV), Jimmy Panetta (CA), Chris Pappas (NH), Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA), Pat Ryan (NY), Kim Schrier (WA), & Eric Sorensen (IL).
Current Senate members who voted yea last time were Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Maggie Hassan (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), & Maggie Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
Based on this alone, HR 5107 will pass the House, but will need 2 more Dem Senators for it to pass cloture.