HB 305 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 profiling.

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

• Mandates collection and reporting of traffic stop statistics including number of stops, demographic characteristics of persons stopped and officers, nature of traffic violations, and outcomes (warnings, citations, arrests, searches) to the Attorney General annually beginning October 1 of the second year after enactment.

• Requires development of standardized forms in printed and electronic formats for recording traffic stop information and complaints, to be developed by the Attorney General in conjunction with state and local law enforcement agencies and the Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.

• Establishes reporting requirements for serious injuries to law enforcement officers in the line of duty, including injury type, extent, costs, and disability status, to be filed with the Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission and Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.