Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1616

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
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