CT SB01162

Each municipal law enforcement unit must hold quarterly community roundtable meetings with stakeholders, beginning on or before October 1, 2023.

Required meeting participants include representatives from social services and mental health agencies, organizations combating gun violence, the judicial branch, and prosecutors serving the municipality.

Meetings must focus on information sharing and data collection, developing coordinated strategies to reduce gun violence and crime, and improving law enforcement accountability and responsiveness to residents.

Law enforcement units may hold meetings more frequently than quarterly at their discretion, and all meetings must be open to the public.

A required meeting may be skipped if the police chief, municipal chief executive officer, and civilian police review board (if one exists) jointly agree the meeting is unnecessary.