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FL S0480
Bill
AI Summary
- Requires the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to establish and maintain a statewide police misconduct registry by June 30, 2022
- Defines "discriminatory profiling" as law enforcement relying on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation when selecting individuals for investigatory procedures, unless linked by reliable information to a specific criminal incident
- Registry must contain complaints filed against all state and local law enforcement officers, disciplinary records, termination records and reasons, lawsuit and settlement records, and instances of resignations or retirements while under active use-of-force investigation
- Complaints and records must be disaggregated by whether they involved use of force or discriminatory profiling, and complaints must be further categorized as credible/resulting in discipline versus exonerated/unfounded/not sustained
- Heads of all state and local law enforcement agencies must submit registry data to the department every 3 months beginning January 2, 2023, and the department must publish the information online in a machine-readable, publicly searchable format
Legislative Description
Statewide Police Misconduct Registry
Last Action
Died in Judiciary
4/30/2021
Committee Referrals
Judiciary1/15/2021
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