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SF 386 Senate Long Description

E Providing for the elimination of racial profiling in peace officer traffic stops, defining racial profiling and traffic stop; stating legislative findings on racial profiling, requiring law enforcement policies and training programs to emphasize the need to respect the balance between the rights of persons to be free from unreasonable governmental intrusions and the need to enforce the law; requiring the commissioner of public safety to oversee a statewide study on traffic stops to determine the existence of racial profiling, requiring law enforcement agencies deciding to participate in the study to follow certain specified procedures, requiring agencies receiving state money for installation of video cameras in police vehicles to participate in the study, specifying the data to be collected and a minimum collection period; providing for periodic submission of data collected to the commissioner by chief law enforcement officers of participating agencies, requiring the commissioner of administration in consultation with the racial profiling advisory committee to retain an outside expert to design and oversee the data collection process and to analyze the data collected, specifying certain additional duties of the commissioner of public safety, requiring an expert report to the legislature by a certain date and classifying the data collected, sunset provision; establishing a racial profiling advisory committee, specifying membership requirements and duties, providing immunity from civil or criminal liability for members in the performance of duties; requiring law enforcement officers conducting traffic stops to issue information cards providing a toll free telephone number to call with complaints and with the badge and agency numbers of the officer, requiring the attorney general to maintain the toll free telephone number and in consultation with the committee to design and distribute to law enforcement agencies a uniform information card; prescribing the racial profiling complaints procedure, specifying certain duties of the board of peace officer standards and training and providing for review of investigations by the racial profiling advisory committee under certain conditions, requiring the board to periodically forward to the committee and make available to the public summary data on complaints received and the results of investigations, providing for confidentiality of proceedings; requiring and providing for commissioner grants to local law enforcement agencies participating in the racial profiling study for the installation of video cameras on police vehicles, specifying certain camera equipment requirements, requiring the POST board to develop standards for use of the cameras and specifying a minimum tape or disk storage duration and certain accessibility and availability requirements; applying the requirements to the state patrol; requiring the POST board in consultation with the committee to develop and distribute to chief law enforcement officers a model policy on eliminating traffic stops involving racial profiling and chief law enforcement officers to establish and implement written policies identical or substantially similar to the model policy by certain dates, requiring periodic board review of the agencies for compliance purposes; requiring the board to provide preservice and inservice training to peace officers to eliminate racial profiling in traffic stops and to facilitate conferences designed to raise peace officer awareness of racially profiled traffic stops; requiring the chief of the state patrol to identify measures to better recruit minorities and increase representation in the state patrol, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety for the video camera grant program, to reimburse local law enforcement agencies for the costs of participating in the racial profiling study and to oversee the study, to the commissioner of administration to retain the outside expert, to the attorney general to maintain the toll free telephone number, to development and implement a public awareness campaign on the issue of racial profiling and to develop and distribute uniform information cards and to the POST board for training costs, to hire a standards coordinator and to provide clerical and administrative support to the racial profiling advisory committee; increasing the surcharge on criminal and traffic offenders specifying the eligibility of certain persons with baccalaureate degrees and with relevant military experience for the peace officer licensing examination (je, ja)