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Original Date Announced
June 9, 2025DHS issued a final rule governing the protection of federal property that creates regulations allowing violations to be charged both on and adjacent to federal property. The rule expands enforcement authority to cover both U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) property and non-GSA property, promotes consistent charging practices across all DHS-protected sites, and modernizes prohibited conduct provisions to account for technological advances and evolving security threats. Previously, DHS relied on the Federal Management Regulation's criminal provisions, which only applied to GSA-property and only to conduct occurring directly on those properties, not conduct adjacent to such properties. The rule was initially proposed in the final week of the Biden administration.
Trump 2.0 [ID #2058]
2025.06.09 DHS - Protection of Federal PropertyEffective Date
November 5, 2025Subsequent Trump and Court Action
November 5, 20252025.11.05 DHS - Protection of Federal Property; Changed Effective Date
DHS published a final rule changing the effective date of the final rule described in this entry from January 1, 2026, to November 5, 2025. It states that there is "good cause" to bypass notice-and-comment rulemaking and a delayed effective date, asserting that "there has been a substantial rise in civil unrest near federal buildings, destruction of federal property, and violence perpetrated against federal officials" over the last few months--specifically "riots" in Los Angeles and Portland tied to immigration enforcement, an incident in Chicago involving a car and a woman shot multiple times by a Border Patrol agent, and the shooting of several immigration detainees by a sniper at an ICE field office in Dallas.
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Status: Final/ActualTrump Administration Actions: Agency Directive RuleSubject Matter: EnforcementAgencies Affected: DHSAssociated or Derivative Policies
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DHS - Protection of Federal Property
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Subsequent Action
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DHS - Protection of Federal Property; Changed Effective Date
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