Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 29, 2025)]

[Presidential Documents]

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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

[FR Doc No: 2025-14391]

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Vol. 90

Tuesday,

No. 143

July 29, 2025

Part III

The President

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Executive Order 14321--Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

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Notice of July 25, 2025--Continuation of the National Emergency With

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Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 143 / Tuesday, July 29, 2025 /

Presidential Documents

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Title 3--

The President

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Executive Order 14321 of July 24, 2025

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and the laws of the United States of

America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Endemic vagrancy,

disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent

attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of

individuals living on the streets in the United States

on a single night during the last year of the previous

administration--274,224--was the highest ever recorded.

The overwhelming majority of these individuals are

addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or

both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report

having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines,

cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes

administration--274,224--was the highest ever recorded.

The overwhelming majority of these individuals are

addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or

both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report

having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines,

cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes. An equally

large share of homeless individuals reported suffering

from mental health conditions. The Federal Government

and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars

on failed programs that address homelessness but not

its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to

public safety threats.

Shifting homeless individuals into long-term

institutional settings for humane treatment through the

appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public

order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder

and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor

other citizens. My Administration will take a new

approach focused on protecting public safety.

Sec. 2. Restoring Civil Commitment. (a) The Attorney

General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health

and Human Services, shall take appropriate action to:

and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor

other citizens. My Administration will take a new

approach focused on protecting public safety.

Sec. 2. Restoring Civil Commitment. (a) The Attorney

General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health

and Human Services, shall take appropriate action to:

(i) seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial

precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United

States' policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental

illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the

streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for

appropriate periods of time; and

(ii) provide assistance to State and local governments, through technical

guidance, grants, or other legally available means, for the identification,

adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment,

institutional treatment, and ``step-down'' treatment standards that allow

for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental

illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot

care for themselves.

Sec. 3. Fighting Vagrancy on America's Streets. (a) The

Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human

Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall

take immediate steps to assess their discretionary

grant programs and determine whether priority for those

grants may be given to grantees in States and

municipalities that actively meet the below criteria,

to the maximum extent permitted by law:

Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall

take immediate steps to assess their discretionary

grant programs and determine whether priority for those

grants may be given to grantees in States and

municipalities that actively meet the below criteria,

to the maximum extent permitted by law:

(i) enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use;

(ii) enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;

(iii) enforce prohibitions on urban squatting;

(iv) enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address

individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from

serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the

streets and

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cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by

moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via

civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted

by law; or

(v) substantially implement and comply with, to the extent required, the

registration and notification obligations of the Sex Offender Registry and

Notification Act, particularly in the case of registered sex offenders with

no fixed address, including by adequately mapping and checking the location

of homeless sex offenders.

(b) The Attorney General shall:

(i) ensure that homeless individuals arrested for Federal crimes are

evaluated, consistent with 18 U.S.C. 4248, to determine whether they are

sexually dangerous persons and certified accordingly for civil commitment;

(ii) take all necessary steps to ensure the availability of funds under the

Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to support, as

consistent with 34 U.S.C. 50101 et seq., encampment removal efforts in

areas for which public safety is at risk and State and local resources are

inadequate;

whether they are

sexually dangerous persons and certified accordingly for civil commitment;

(ii) take all necessary steps to ensure the availability of funds under the

Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to support, as

consistent with 34 U.S.C. 50101 et seq., encampment removal efforts in

areas for which public safety is at risk and State and local resources are

inadequate;

(iii) assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed

toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with

serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack

of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or

hospitals; and

(iv) enhance requirements that prisons and residential reentry centers that

are under the authority of the Attorney General or receive funding from the

Attorney General require in-custody housing release plans and, to the

maximum extent practicable, require individuals to comply.

Sec. 4. Redirecting Federal Resources Toward Effective

Methods of Addressing Homelessness. (a) The Secretary

of Health and Human Services shall take appropriate

action to:

(i) ensure that discretionary grants issued by the Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration for substance use disorder

prevention, treatment, and recovery fund evidence-based programs and do not

fund programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called

``harm reduction'' or ``safe consumption'' efforts that only facilitate

illegal drug use and its attendant harm;

(ii) provide technical assistance to assisted outpatient treatment programs

for individuals with serious mental illness or addiction during and after

the civil commitment process focused on shifting such individuals off of

the streets and public programs and into private housing and support

networks; and

safe consumption'' efforts that only facilitate

illegal drug use and its attendant harm;

(ii) provide technical assistance to assisted outpatient treatment programs

for individuals with serious mental illness or addiction during and after

the civil commitment process focused on shifting such individuals off of

the streets and public programs and into private housing and support

networks; and

(iii) ensure that Federal funds for Federally Qualified Health Centers and

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics reduce rather than promote

homelessness by supporting, to the maximum extent permitted by law,

comprehensive services for individuals with serious mental illness and

substance use disorder, including crisis intervention services.

(b) The Attorney General shall prioritize available

funding to support the expansion of drug courts and

mental health courts for individuals for which such

diversion serves public safety.

Sec. 5. Increasing Accountability and Safety in

America's Homelessness Programs. (a) The Secretary of

Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Housing

and Urban Development shall take appropriate actions to

increase accountability in their provision of, and

grants awarded for, homelessness assistance and

transitional living programs. These actions shall

include, to the extent permitted by law, ending support

for ``housing first'' policies that deprioritize

accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery,

and self-sufficiency; increasing competition among

grantees through broadening the applicant pool; and

holding grantees to higher standards of effectiveness

in reducing homelessness and increasing public safety.

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st'' policies that deprioritize

accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery,

and self-sufficiency; increasing competition among

grantees through broadening the applicant pool; and

holding grantees to higher standards of effectiveness

in reducing homelessness and increasing public safety.

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(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

shall, as appropriate, take steps to require recipients

of Federal housing and homelessness assistance to

increase requirements that persons participating in the

recipients' programs who suffer from substance use

disorder or serious mental illness use substance abuse

treatment or mental health services as a condition of

participation.

(c) With respect to recipients of Federal housing

and homelessness assistance that operate drug injection

sites or ``safe consumption sites,'' knowingly

distribute drug paraphernalia, or permit the use or

distribution of illicit drugs on property under their

control:

(i) the Attorney General shall review whether such recipients are in

violation of Federal law, including 21 U.S.C. 856, and bring civil or

criminal actions in appropriate cases; and

(ii) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in coordination with

the Attorney General, shall review whether such recipients are in violation

of the terms of the programs pursuant to which they receive Federal housing

and homelessness assistance and freeze their assistance as appropriate.

deral law, including 21 U.S.C. 856, and bring civil or

criminal actions in appropriate cases; and

(ii) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in coordination with

the Attorney General, shall review whether such recipients are in violation

of the terms of the programs pursuant to which they receive Federal housing

and homelessness assistance and freeze their assistance as appropriate.

(d) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

shall take appropriate measures and revise regulations

as necessary to allow, where permissible under

applicable law, federally funded programs to

exclusively house women and children and to stop sex

offenders who receive homelessness assistance through

such programs from being housed with unrelated

children.

(e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,

in consultation with the Attorney General and the

Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall, as

appropriate and to the extent permitted by law:

(i) allow or require the recipients of Federal funding for homelessness

assistance to collect health-related information that the Secretary of

Housing and Urban Development identifies as necessary to the effective and

efficient operation of the funding program from all persons to whom such

assistance is provided; and

(ii) require those funding recipients to share such data with law

enforcement authorities in circumstances permitted by law and to use the

collected health data to provide appropriate medical care to individuals

with mental health diagnoses or to connect individuals to public health

resources.

Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order

shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

s to share such data with law

enforcement authorities in circumstances permitted by law and to use the

collected health data to provide appropriate medical care to individuals

with mental health diagnoses or to connect individuals to public health

resources.

Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order

shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or

the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with

applicable law and subject to the availability of

appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,

create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,

enforceable at law or in equity by any party against

the United States, its departments, agencies, or

entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any

other person.

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(d) The costs for publication of this order shall

be borne by the Department of Housing and Urban

Development.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 24, 2025.

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