Relating to public safety; requiring the collection and analysis of data and the adoption of policies on racial profiling; defining certain terms; requiring the attorney general to procure the services of an outside expert to assist with certain data collection and statistical analysis duties; requiring law enforcement officers conducting traffic stops to record and forward certain data to the chief law enforcement officer and to provide certain information to the drivers of the vehicles stopped; requiring submission of certain reports to the attorney general monthly; requiring the attorney general to implement an auditing system of unannounced spot checks to ensure data collection accuracy; 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; 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; specifying legislative findings and concerns for deprivation of civil rights and patterns of misconduct by public officials by racial profiling; appropriating money to the attorney general for implementation of the requirements; repealing the previously required racial profiling study by the commissioner of public safety
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