Bill > A03641

This bill establishes the "universal stop false police reporting act" which creates new crimes of "aggravated falsely reporting an incident" in the first, second, and third degrees. These new crimes apply when a person falsely reports an incident with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm another person based on a belief or perception about the person's race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or ethnicity. The bill also requires police officers to arrest individuals suspected of committing these new crimes, includes these new crimes as "hate crimes" under the law, creates databases of law enforcement officers and individuals convicted of these crimes, and requires prosecutors to provide written explanations when these crimes are dismissed.