Bill > A4450

Introduced Session

This bill requires the Attorney General to create, maintain, and update, as appropriate, an online portal, in the form of an Internet website, to be used by law enforcement officers to report the misconduct of other law enforcement officers. The bill provides that, in addition to any other reporting requirements set forth in law, regulation, or policy, a law enforcement officer who observes any of the following actions committed by another law enforcement officer would be required to report the action to the Attorney General using the online portal established in the bill: (1) unjustifiable use of force, pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.2C:3-7; (2) deprivation of civil rights, pursuant to section 2 of P.L. 2003, c.3 (C.2C:30-6); or (3) any other act which constitutes a criminal offense in this State. Additionally, the bill provides that a law enforcement officer who observes another law enforcement officer committing an act that does not constitute a criminal offense, but violates any policy or other regulation to which the other law enforcement officer is subject, may use the portal to report the act to the Attorney General. The bill also provides that the portal is required to operate so that submission of a report may be completed anonymously. In the case of an anonymous submission, the portal would create an identifier using a series of random characters in place of the personal identifying information of the reporting law enforcement officer.

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Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*,  Benjie Wimberly (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Community Development and Affairs Committee (on 07/23/2020)