CT HB05372

Police officers must submit to behavioral health assessments conducted by board-certified psychiatrists, psychologists, or clinical social workers with PTSD experience, at minimum once every five years starting January 1, 2021, with assessments staggered at approximately 20% of officers annually.

Law enforcement units must develop and implement guidelines for recruitment, retention, and promotion of minority police officers to achieve racial, gender, ideological, and ethnic diversity and promote community involvement.

A public institution of higher education must conduct a study on school resource officers' impact on students with disabilities, including employment numbers, funding mechanisms, efficacy metrics, crisis response protocols, and memoranda of understanding processes, with findings due December 1, 2022.

Chief law enforcement officers must report to the Police Officer Standards and Training Council violations involving officers who used excessive force causing serious injury or death, failed to intervene in such force, engaged in protected-class harassment, or were terminated under specified circumstances; the Inspector General investigates failures to report.

The Correction Advisory Committee expands from nine to eleven members to include victims' rights advocates and representatives with expertise in corrections and medication administration in correctional settings.