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SB42

Alaska SB42: Police Standards, Registry, and Use-of-Force Reporting

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In one sentence

This bill requires certain law enforcement workers to report specific uses of force, creates a registry for officers who lost their certificates, makes municipal correctional employees subject to state standards, and sets up new reporting rules.

What it does

  • Requires the Alaska Police Standards Council to adopt regulations requiring officers to report incidents where they used force against a person as soon as practicable.
  • Creates a central registry listing names of people denied certificates and officers whose certificates were revoked, including reasons for those actions.
  • Makes municipal correctional employees required to meet state standards instead of allowing cities to choose whether to apply them via ordinance.
  • Requires municipalities and the Department of Corrections to send reports on use-of-force incidents to the Department of Public Safety using prescribed forms.
  • Directs the Department of Public Safety to collect all use-of-force data, report it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and submit an annual summary to the legislature.

Who it affects

  • State police officers including troopers, village public safety officers, and regional public safety officers.
  • Municipal police officers and employees working in municipal correctional facilities.
  • Probation officers, parole officers, pretrial services officers, and state correctional officers.
  • The Alaska Police Standards Council and the Department of Public Safety.

Limits and unknowns

  • The bill text does not specify the exact effective date for these new rules.
  • The specific content of the forms used to report use-of-force incidents is determined by the Department of Public Safety and not detailed in this excerpt.

Plain language

Terms to know

Use of force
Force that causes death or serious physical injury, or when a firearm is fired at or toward another person during an interaction with an officer.
Central registry
A list kept by the council containing names of officers who had their certificates denied or revoked and the reasons why.
Municipal correctional employee
Any person employed in a municipal correctional facility, now required to meet state standards applicable to municipal correctional officers.

Official record

Sources

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Official summary

LAW ENFORCEMENT: REGISTRY; USE OF FORCE An Act relating to the duties of the Alaska Police Standards Council; relating to municipal correctional officers and municipal correctional employees; making municipal police officers subject to police standards; relating to the duties of the Department of Public Safety; relating to reports of incidents of use of force by state and municipal police, probation, parole, pretrial services, and correctional officers and municipal correctional facility employees; and providing for an effective date.

Official activity

Bill history

  1. (S) REFERRED TO COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS37
  2. (S) CRA, JUD37
  3. (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS37
  4. (S) PREFILE RELEASED 1/17/2537