HB 15-1288: Updates to the Statutory Prohibition on Profiling

• Expands the definition of "profiling" to prohibit relying to any degree on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, nationality, language, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, or disability when selecting persons for investigatory activities or determining the scope and duration of law enforcement activity.

• Prohibits peace officers from detaining persons beyond the time necessary to issue a citation, enforce a court order, or address a criminal violation, and from asking questions beyond the scope necessary for these purposes, except when reasonable and articulable suspicion exists.

• Allows use of physical descriptions including sex, race, ethnicity, and color to select a person for investigation only when seeking a specific suspect linked to an identified criminal incident or scheme by trustworthy information relevant to the locality and time frame.

• Requires suppressed evidence and dismissed cases resulting from profiling violations to trigger mandatory state-provided profiling training on community relationship building and alternatives to profiling for the officer's law enforcement agency.

• Clarifies that the statute does not expand peace officer or law enforcement agency jurisdiction or authority.