Bill > A5876

Introduced Session

This bill requires the collection and reporting of all law enforcement detentions and establishes a council to make recommendations to eliminate racial and identity profiling in policing. This bill would require the Attorney General to direct law enforcement agencies to collect data on all detentions and to report the aggregated, de-identified data on the Internet website of the Department of Law and Public Safety. Currently, the Department of Law and Public Safety collects data on motor vehicle stops. Under the bill, law enforcement agencies would have to report data on all stops, which the bill defines as any detention of an individual by a law enforcement officer based on no more than an articulable suspicion of wrongdoing for the purpose of investigation on the spot. The bill also establishes the Racial and Identity Profiling Elimination Advisory Council in the Department of Law and Public Safety. The council will be charged with analyzing the data published by the Attorney General's office and making recommendations to advance the progress of eliminating identity profiling in policing. The council shall be composed of 12 members including: the Attorney General, or a designee; the Superintendent of the Division of State Police, or a designee; a member of the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey; a member of the Office of the Public Defender; two appointees of the Governor who are representatives of New Jersey based community justice organizations focused on civil rights; four members of the public with experience in reducing racial and identity bias who will be appointees of the Governor upon recommendation of the Senate President, Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the General Assembly, and Minority Leader of the General Assembly; and a university professor with demonstrated expertise in criminal justice and experienced in the study of evidence based methods of reducing racial and identity profiling, who would be appointed by the Governor.

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Shanique Speight (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee (on 12/11/2023)

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