HB266 Summary

• Defines racial profiling as detention or disparate treatment of a motorist solely based on racial or ethnic status and prohibits law enforcement officers from engaging in such stops.

• Requires county and municipal police departments and the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to adopt written policies prohibiting stops based on race, color, ethnicity, age, gender, or sexual orientation by January 1 following the effective date.

• Mandates collection and retention of traffic stop data including number of stops, demographic characteristics of persons stopped (based on officer observation), traffic violation cited, and action taken (warning, citation, arrest, or search).

• Requires law enforcement agencies to submit complaint copies and disposition notifications to the Attorney General, with annual summary reports beginning October 1 of the second year following enactment.

• Establishes data collection on serious injuries to law enforcement officers in the line of duty, to be filed with the Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission and Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.