Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0903

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)