Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective June 6, 2024
Section 131.920 - Policies and procedures prohibiting profiling(1) All law enforcement agencies shall have written policies and procedures prohibiting profiling. The policies and procedures shall, at a minimum, include: (a) A prohibition on profiling;(b) Procedures allowing a complaint alleging profiling to be made to the agency: (B) In a writing signed by the complainant and delivered by hand, postal mail, facsimile or electronic mail; or(C) By telephone, anonymously or through a third party;(c) The provision of appropriate forms to use for submitting complaints alleging profiling;(d) Procedures for submitting a copy of each profiling complaint to the Law Enforcement Contacts Policy and Data Review Committee and for receiving profiling complaints forwarded from the committee; and(e) Procedures for investigating all complaints alleging profiling.(2) A law enforcement agency shall: (a) Investigate all complaints alleging profiling that are received by the agency or forwarded from the committee.(b) Accept for investigation a complaint alleging profiling that is made to the agency within 180 days of the alleged profiling incident.(c) Respond to every complaint alleging profiling within a reasonable time after the conclusion of the investigation. The response must contain a statement of the final disposition of the complaint.Amended by 2017 Ch. 706,§ 7, eff. 8/16/2017. 2015 c. 681, § 2; 2015 c. 681, § 6