diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
index 198625b4256..d0e14251e6d 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
         prio = prio.encode('utf-8')
         # Message is a string. Convert to bytes as required by RFC 5424
         msg = msg.encode('utf-8')
-        msg = prio + BOM_UTF8 + msg
+        msg = prio + msg
         try:
             if self.unixsocket:
                 try:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 97ee354c9ba..4293a1ca97a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
+
 - Issue #14386: Expose the dict_proxy internal type as types.MappingProxyType.
 
 - Issue #13959: Make imp.reload() always use a module's __loader__ to perform