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OH SB42
Bill
Status
2/1/2011
Primary Sponsor
Eric Kearney
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AI Summary
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Designates racial profiling by law enforcement officers as an unlawful discriminatory practice under Ohio civil rights law, effective October 1, 2011.
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Requires all law enforcement agencies in Ohio to maintain policies prohibiting racial profiling, including provisions for training, complaint procedures, and corrective action when violations occur.
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Mandates the Ohio Civil Rights Commission collect and analyze data from law enforcement agencies on routine investigatory activities (stops, searches, interviews) starting January 1, 2012, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, national origin, and gender to identify significant disparities.
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Grants the Commission access to the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) to obtain investigatory data and requires law enforcement agencies to enter all relevant information for routine or spontaneous investigatory activities.
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Requires the Commission to prepare annual reports by May 1 of each year analyzing the preceding year's data for disparities, including comparisons of stop rates, false stops, and search frequency by protected characteristics.
Legislative Description
To specify that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice that is within the jurisdiction of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission for any law enforcement agency or officer in Ohio to engage in racial profiling; to require the Commission to compile data from law enforcement agencies regarding routine or spontaneous investigatory activities of the agencies' officers and analyze the data for significantly significant disparities related to the race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender of the subjects of the activities; to provide for Commission access to LEADS to obtain the data and require law enforcement agencies to enter the data on LEADS; and to require law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy designed to eliminate racial profiling by the agency and its officers and to cease existing practices by the agency and its officers that permit or encourage racial profiling.
Racial profiling-unlawful discriminatory practice
Last Action
To Judiciary Civil Justice
2/1/2011