HF4200 Summary

• Establishes a Public Safety Innovation Board within the Department of Public Safety with 15 members representing researchers, crime victims, criminal justice system-impacted persons, community organizations, and law enforcement to oversee grant programs and monitor public safety trends.

• Appropriates $55 million in fiscal year 2023 for local community innovation grants to support re-entry programs, victim services, homelessness assistance, mobile crisis teams, restorative justice, co-responder programs, juvenile diversion, community violence interruption, and blight elimination in high-crime areas.

• Provides $15 million for emergency community safety grants by October 1, 2022, with half directed to non-law-enforcement crime prevention programs and half supporting law enforcement initiatives including officer recruitment, patrols, crisis response teams, and victim services.

• Allocates $15 million each for local community policing grants and local investigation grants to increase law enforcement capacity through recruitment bonuses, crisis response teams, evidence processing improvements, and victim support services.

• Requires body camera data storage program ($6 million) and body camera grants ($9 million) for local law enforcement, mandating policies that preserve deadly force recordings indefinitely, provide family access to recordings within five business days, and require public release within 14 business days.