An interactive, sourced tracker across four categories. Filter the map, then hover or tap a state. Updated November 2026 · Not legal advice — verify with the official source.
Enacted law
Pending bill (incl. carried over)
Restricted / banned
Restricted — non-statutory (policy/court)
Failed / lapsed bill
Mixed status
No specific law
In “All laws,” a state is green only when every law on the books is enacted. If it also has something pending, carried over, restricted, or banned, it shows as Mixed — open the state to see each category. Failed or lapsed bills do not affect the “All laws” color; switch to a single category to see them.
Select a state
Use the filters above to switch categories — AI police reports, investigations, facial recognition, or broad government-AI laws — then hover or tap any state to see every law that applies, with sources. Only California and Utah have enacted AI police-report laws; 14 states regulate police facial recognition by statute.
What each police-report law actually requires
Enacted laws and live bills on AI-assisted police reports, broken down by obligation. ✓ = required by the statute or bill text; — = not addressed. Hover a state above for sources.
What’s next
Dates that will change this map.
The data, state by state
Change log
Method
This tracker covers four categories of state action on law-enforcement AI: statutes and bills on AI-generated police reports, AI used in criminal investigations, facial recognition and biometric surveillance, and public-sector AI-governance laws that reach police agencies. Every entry is checked against the legislature’s own bill-status page or the codified statute; where the action is a prosecutor policy or court decision rather than a statute, we link the official release or opinion and, failing that, the news report that documents it. Statuses are re-verified monthly, and bills are marked failed or lapsed only when the session has ended or the legislature’s record shows the bill cannot advance. Consumer-privacy and private-sector AI laws that exempt government are deliberately excluded. Spotted a change or an error? Tell us and we will verify and correct it.
As of November 2026: 2 states have enacted AI police-report laws (CA SB 524, UT SB 180); New Jersey has a pending bill directing an Attorney General study, while Minnesota's prohibition bill lapsed at the May 2026 adjournment and New York's police-AI and facial-recognition bills stalled in committee when the 2026 session ended on June 5, 2026 (they expire with the 2025–26 term in January 2027); Connecticut has a statewide, non-statutory prosecutorial restriction on AI-drafted reports and New Jersey requires facial-recognition disclosure through case law (State v. Miles, June 2026 — both shown in orange), while King County, WA, Wayne County, MI, and Hays County, TX have local restrictions that do not set statewide law; 14 states regulate law-enforcement facial recognition by statute (Virginia's rules tightened on July 1, 2026 to require statutory authorization and a warrant), and every 2026 facial-recognition bill tracked here (NY, IL, WI, WV, WY) failed or stalled, as did South Carolina's broader surveillance-data bill; and several public-sector AI-governance laws and executive orders (TX TRAIGA + SB 1964, CA, CT, MD, VT, KY, IN, NY, WA EO 24-01, OR EO 26-26) reach law-enforcement AI use. Colorado's AI Act was repealed and replaced (SB 26-189, eff. 2027); policing is not a covered domain, so it does not reach law enforcement. In the “All laws” view, green marks states where every applicable law is enacted; states combining enacted laws with pending, restricted, or non-statutory measures are shown as Mixed. Sources linked per state. This tracker is informational and not legal advice.