Plain English Breakdown
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Changes to Law Enforcement Stop Data and Advisory Board Rules
This law changes how police stops are defined for reporting, updates the membership of a state advisory board on profiling, and adds new review steps for annual reports.
What This Bill Does
- Excludes certain situations from the definition of a 'stop,' such as interactions caused by calls for service or detentions needed to prevent serious bodily injury or death.
- Adds two new members to the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA): the president of the California District Attorneys Association (or their designee) and an active peace officer from the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training who is not already a member.
- Reduces the number of representatives for human or civil rights tax-exempt organizations, community organizations, and religious clergy on RIPA from two each to one each.
- Removes the authority of the Governor, Senate President pro Tempore, and Assembly Speaker to appoint additional members to RIPA.
- Requires annual reports to analyze stops where people are stopped in locations different from where they live, work, or attend an educational institution.
- Mandates that two separate entities review the annual report before it is published and allows board members to include dissenting opinions.
Who It Names or Affects
- State and local agencies that employ peace officers
- The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA)
- Members of civil rights organizations, community groups, and religious clergy serving on the board
Terms To Know
- Stop data
- Information collected by police agencies about detentions or interactions where a search occurs.
- Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA)
- A state board created to study and help end racial profiling in law enforcement.
- Dissenting opinion
- A written statement by a board member who disagrees with the main findings or conclusions of the report, which may be included along with a response from the board.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not state an effective date for when these changes begin.
- Reimbursement to local agencies depends on whether the Commission on State Mandates determines that new costs exist.