Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.

Digest: The Act tells police agencies to make a board to look at the policies of the agency and make a report to DPSST.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells police agencies to make a board to look at the policies of the agency and make a report to DPSST.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
• Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
• Relating to: Relating to police oversight boards.

Limits and Unknowns

• This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells police agencies to make a board to look at the policies of the agency and make a report to DPSST. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
Relating to: Relating to police oversight boards.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2831
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act tells police agencies to make a board to look at the policies of the agency and
make a report to DPSST. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires a law enforcement agency to designate a police oversight board to annually review
policies of the agency and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to police oversight boards.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
A law enforcement agency, as defined in ORS 181A.010, shall designate a
police oversight board composed of public members with diverse perspectives. The police
oversight board shall annually review the policies of the law enforcement agency and report
to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training on the review.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 2369