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SF 903 Senate Long Description

Providing for the elimination of racial profiling in peace officer traffic stops; making motor vehicle windshield violations a secondary offense, prohibiting peace officer issuance of windshield violation citations without a stop for a moving violation; defining certain terms relating to race motivated traffic stops; establishing the temporary traffic stop statistics advisory committee, specifying membership requirements, requiring the attorney general to cooperate with and advise the committee and with the approval of the advisory committee to procure an outside expert to assist with designing a method for gathering statistics, monitoring compliance and conducting statistical analyses; requiring and providing for the collection of certain traffic stop data by law enforcement officers for forwarding to agency chief law enforcement officers, requiring law enforcement officers in conducting traffic stop to issue a form letter to vehicle drivers detailing the procedure for filing a complaint; requiring law enforcement agencies to periodically submit to the attorney general copies of the required reports and complaints received; providing for attorney general monitoring of compliance with data collection requirements and for outside expert periodic analysis of the reports for racial profiling determination purposes, requiring submission of analysis results to the attorney general for periodic reporting to the governor and the legislature; classifying the data collected; requiring the board of peace officer standards and training (POST) to develop and distribute to chief law enforcement officers a model policy on prohibiting 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 attorney general monitoring for implementation and enforcement purposes; requiring law enforcement agencies to develop and implement an early warning information management system to integrate traffic stop data; authorizing the governor upon the recommendation of the advisory committee to withhold a certain percentage of state aid to law enforcement agencies or local government units for intentionally refusing or delaying the accurate collection of data; requiring the board in consultation with the advisory committee to provide preservice training and chief law enforcement officers to provide inservice training to peace officers in eliminating racial profiling; requiring the attorney general by a certain date to develop and distribute to law enforcement agencies a standardized form for recording information; appropriating money to the attorney general for implementation, the advisory committee and the outside expert (ra)