NJ S3486

Requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain a central, searchable database of all traffic stops by state and local law enforcement officers in New Jersey.

Mandates quarterly reporting from all state and local police departments to populate the database with detailed stop information.

Requires collection of driver demographic data including race/ethnicity, approximate age, and gender for each traffic stop, regardless of whether a citation or only a warning was issued.

Database must include 15 categories of information per stop: officer identity, date, agency, violation alleged, whether searches occurred, consent/probable cause/warrant basis, contraband found, citations issued, arrests made, property seized, physical resistance encountered, use of force, injuries, investigations, and geographic location.

Database will be publicly available on the Department of Law and Public Safety website and subject to open public records requests.