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The Justice Department on Monday will unveil its new policy expanding a ban on federal law enforcement officers' use of profiling in investigations.

The revised guidelines will broaden a 2003 prohibition on religious or ethnic profiling. The policy will bar profiling based on religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, as the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

For the first time, the policy will also apply to local law enforcement officers participating in federal task forces.

But the policy will not apply to Border Patrol officers working in the vicinity of the border, nor the Transportation Security Administration and other officers working at airports. The Secret Service will not be covered either.

The new policy was described by a Justice Department official as one of Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr.s signature accomplishments, which he pushed hard to finalize before his planned departure early next year.

As attorney general, I have repeatedly made clear that profiling by law enforcement is not only wrong, it is profoundly misguided and ineffective because it wastes precious resources and undermines the public trust, Holder said in a statement to be released Monday.

Particularly in light of certain recent incidents weve seen at the local level and the widespread concerns about trust in the criminal justice process which so many have raised throughout the nation its imperative that we take every possible action to institute strong and sound policing practices, Holder said.

He was alluding to incidents in New York and Ferguson, Mo., in which unarmed black men died during encounters with white police officers. Those deaths have led to protests across the nation.

The Justice officialsaid that Holder intends to "aggressively" impose the changes and that the attorney general hopes they become a model for state and local authorities. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the policy before its official announcement.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said the exclusions for certain Border Patrol and TSA activities did not mean that profiling would be freely allowed, but that it would be permissible to rely in part on the banned characteristics because of the unique nature of border and transportation security.

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Eric Holder to announce broader ban on racial, ethnic, other profiling

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce new guidelines on racial profiling for federal law enforcement on Monday. The revised guidelines will expand the definition of racial profiling and will apply to state and local officials involved in federal law enforcement tasks, according to CBS.

The Justice Department issued its first restrictions on racial profiling in 2003 under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Those guidelines banned profiling on the basis of race or ethnicity but allowed for exceptions for border control and national security, CBS reported. Holder has been revising those guidelines since 2009 but pushed to have the the policy finished before his departure from office.

"During the last two weeks in particular, it has been the first item on the agenda each day in his morning senior staff meetings," one DOJ official told ABC. "It will be one of the signature accomplishments of his tenure."

The announcement comes as nationwide protests continue over the use of deadly force by police officers against unarmed black men in incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York. The decision to not indict both officers by local grand juries has sparked further protests in recent days.

Holder linked Mondays announcement to these incidents in a statement provided by his office in advance of the release. "Particularly in light of certain recent incidents we've seen at the local level -- and the widespread concerns about trust in the criminal justice process which so many have raised throughout the nation -- it's imperative that we take every possible action to institute strong and sound policing practices," he said.

While the new guidelines are expected to expand the characteristics it protects -- including bans of profiling on the basis of gender, national origin and sexual orientation -- some civil rights groups remain unsatisfied with the reform.

Its baffling that even as the government recognizes that bias-based policing is patently unacceptable, it gives a green light for the FBI, TSA and CBP [Customs and Border Protection] to profile racial, religious and other minorities at or in the vicinity of the border and in certain national security contexts, and does not apply the Guidance to most state and local law enforcement, ACLU Washington legislative office director Laura W. Murphy said in a statement.

The DOJ is expected to announce the full guidance on Monday afternoon.

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Outgoing United States attorney general Eric Holder. (FP)

As Eric Holder spent some of his last days in office meeting with Barbados Governor General and Prime Minister recently, a key thing has become clear about Americas first black Attorney General.

It is that the tenure of the Barbadian-American as the fourth longest serving head of the United States Justice Department means different things to different people.

To Americans who cherish freedom and respect for civil and human rights, the son of Eric and Miriam Holder is a champion, their darling, if you will.

When the history of his tenure is written, Eric Holder will ultimately be recognised as one of the finest attorneys general this country has ever known, said Sherrilyn Ifill, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People Legal Defence Fund.

US Congressman John Lewis, a Democrat of Georgia and a former aide of the late Dr Martin Luther King Jr, agreed.

His resignation is a great loss for any American seeking justice in our society, said Lewis, a revered icon of the civil rights movement.

And as Ambassador Andy Young, the first black person to serve as the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a former Mayor of Atlanta saw Holder, the man with Bajan roots is an excellent judicial candidate for the US Supreme Court.

But Darrell Issa, chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, paints a different picture of the AG.

Eric Holder is the most divisive US Attorney General in history, said Issa whose dislike of Holder apparently knows little, if any bounds. For it was Issa, a Republican conservative of California, who sought to get Congress to hold the AG in contempt.

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