Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0386

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)