MN HF90

Establishes "Kobe's Law," requiring peace officers to retain all portable recording system recordings of deadly force incidents without alteration, erasure, or destruction prior to expiration of applicable retention periods.

Prohibits law enforcement agencies from withholding recordings of deadly force against individuals from the deceased's next of kin, legal representatives, or other parents of the individual's children on the basis that the recording is an investigatory record or compiled for law enforcement purposes.

Requires peace officers equipped with portable recording systems involved in, witnessing, or within viewable sight or audible range of deadly force or related criminal investigations to have their recordings immediately seized at the end of their work shift by their law enforcement agency or investigating state or local agency.

Mandates that within 48 hours of an incident where deadly force results in death, all unedited recordings from a peace officer's portable recording system must be made available for viewing and copying by the deceased individual's next of kin, legal representatives, or other parents of the individual's children.

Subjects law enforcement agencies to exemplary damages of not less than twice the minimum or more than twice the maximum allowable exemplary damages under Minnesota law for willful violations of these requirements.