119-hr5118

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5118 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5118

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal 
 prohibition on the public release of the name of a Federal law 
 enforcement officer with the intent to obstruct a criminal 
 investigation or immigration enforcement operation.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 September 3, 2025

 Mr. Ogles introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal 
 prohibition on the public release of the name of a Federal law 
 enforcement officer with the intent to obstruct a criminal 
 investigation or immigration enforcement operation.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Law Enforcement from 
Doxxing Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PUBLIC RELEASE OF NAME OF FEDERAL LAW 
 ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.

    (a) In General.--

Section 1510 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--

    (1) in the heading, by inserting ``and immigration 
 enforcement operations'' after ``criminal investigations''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (f) Releasing Name of Federal Law Enforcement Officer.--
 ``

    (1) === Definition. ===
-In this section, the term `Federal law 
 enforcement officer' means any officer, agent, or employee of 
 the United States authorized by law or by a Government agency 
 to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, 
 investigation, or prosecution of any violation of Federal 
 criminal law or immigration law.
 ``

    (2) Offense.--It shall be unlawful to make the name of a 
 Federal law enforcement officer publicly available with the 
 intent to obstruct a criminal investigation or immigration 
 enforcement operation.
 ``

    (3) Penalty.--Any person who violates paragraph

    (2) shall 
 be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 5 
 years, or both.''.

    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--

    (1) Table of sections.--The table of sections for chapter 
 73 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the 
 item relating to 

section 1510 and inserting the following:

``1510. Obstruction of criminal investigations and immigration 
 enforcement operations.''.

    (2) Other amendments.--
        (A) Section 1961

    (1) of title 18, United States 
 Code, is amended by inserting after ``

section 1510 
 (relating to obstruction of criminal investigations'' 
 the following: ``and immigration enforcement 
 operations''.
        (B) Section 2516

    (1)
            (c) of title 18, United States 
 Code, is amended by inserting after ``

section 1510 
 (obstruction of criminal investigations'' the 
 following: ``and immigration enforcement operations''.
            (C) Section 3142

    (h)

    (2)
            (C) of title 18, United 
 States Code, is amended by inserting after ``1510 
 (relating to obstruction of criminal investigations'' 
 the following: ``and immigration enforcement 
 operations''.
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