HB286 Summary

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

• Requires all county, municipal, and state law enforcement agencies to adopt written policies prohibiting stops, detentions, or searches motivated solely by race, color, ethnicity, age, gender, or sexual orientation by January 1, 2022.

• Mandates law enforcement agencies to record and report traffic stop statistics including number of stops, demographic characteristics of individuals and officers, nature of violations, and outcomes (warnings, citations, arrests, or searches) to the Attorney General beginning January 1, 2022.

• Requires agencies to provide copies of complaints to the Attorney General regarding violations of the act; allows the Attorney General to withhold funding from non-compliant agencies until they complete racial profiling training.

• Requires each law enforcement agency to adopt written policies and forms by January 1, 2022 to collect data on serious injuries to officers in the line of duty, filed with the Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission and Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.