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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
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Establishes the office of law enforcement professional standards
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Operations · Sponsor Ellen C. Jaffee
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BILL NUMBER:S1743
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the office of law enforcement professional standards
Purpose
The purpose of this bill is to create an Office of Law Enforcement Professional Standards in the Division of Criminal Justice Services. The Office would promulgate policies to prohibit racial profiling practices by local and state police departments.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Adds a new section 837-aa to the Executive law to create the Office of Law Enforcement Professional Standards within the Division of Criminal Justice Services. The Office must create a written policy, to be adopted by local police departments, which would prohibit the stopping, detention or search of any person when the action is solely motivated by race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender or sexual orientation and the action would violate the person's civil rights. The Office must also create a written form that will be used to retain information about persons stopped for traffic violations. These forms will be analyzed by the Office. The Office will also be responsible for approving curricula for training law enforcement agencies on cultural awareness. They must also prepare an annual report that includes aggregate statistics on state and local law enforcement activities and procedures, and aggregate data on the race, color, ethnicity, gender and age of such persons involved in traffic stops.
Section 2. Effective date.
Justification
As a result of racial profiling, minority drivers are more likely to be stopped, questioned by police officers and subjected to unreasonable searches.
Because of the prevalent practice of the use of racial profiling for traffic stops, many States have come to adopt racial profiling laws. In 2009; New Jersey enacted into law a racial profiling bill which created an office under the Attorney General to continue examining motor vehicle stops. This New Jersey law was a result of a complaint filed in Federal Court against the State of New Jersey for its prevalent practice of racial profiling.
New York must join these other states which have adopted laws to prohibit the use racial profiling. New York, with its diverse population, must adopt policies to ensure that the civil rights of minority groups are not being violated.
Legislative history
2013-14: S1981/A1089 - Finance Committee/Governmental Operations Committee
2012: S6187/A9602 - Finance Committee/Governmental Operations Committee
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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