Relating to crime prevention; creating the crimes of official deprivation of
civil rights and pattern of official misconduct by peace officers, specifying
the elements of the crimes and prescribing penalties for violation; prohibiting racial profiling by law enforcement officers in traffic stops, defining race based traffic stop and racial profiling; requiring the attorney general to procure the services of an outside expert to assist with implementation of the prohibition; requiring law enforcement officers conducting traffic stops to temporarily record and forward certain data to the chief law enforcement officer and to provide certain information to the drivers of the vehicles stopped; requiring law enforcement agency periodic reports of complaints to the attorney general; requiring the attorney general to implement a monitoring and compliance system for law enforcement agency data collection requirements compliance enforcement purposes; requiring and providing for analysis of the data by the outside expert, requiring periodic submission of the results to the
attorney general and attorney general periodic summary reports to the governor and legislature; classifying the data collected; requiring and providing for law enforcement agencies with a disproportionate number of stops involving racial minorities to adopt and implement an improvement plan for approval by the attorney general, requiring the peace officer standards and training (POST) board in consultation with the Minnesota peace officers and sheriffs associations to draft a model improvement plan by a certain date; requiring the attorney general by a certain date to develop and distribute to law enforcement agencies a standardized form for law enforcement officers to use to record the
required information; appropriating money to the attorney general for
implementation of the requirements; repealing the previously required racial profiling study by the commissioner of public safety and the racial profiling advisory committee
(ra)