Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3612

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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