Senate Bill No. 20–Senator  Neal

 

Prefiled January 24, 2003

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Referred to  Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Provides that peace officer who engages in racial profiling is guilty of misdemeanor. (BDR 23‑42)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to racial profiling; providing that a peace officer who engages in racial profiling is guilty of a misdemeanor; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 289.820 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  289.820  1.  A peace officer shall not engage in racial

1-3  profiling. A peace officer who violates the provisions of this

1-4  subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor.

1-5  2.  No retaliatory or punitive action may be taken against a

1-6  peace officer who discloses information concerning racial profiling

1-7  [.] engaged in by another peace officer.

1-8  3.  For purposes of this section, “racial profiling” means

1-9  reliance by a peace officer upon the race, ethnicity or national origin

1-10  of a person as a factor in initiating action when the race, ethnicity or

1-11  national origin of the person is not part of an identifying description

1-12  of a specific suspect for a specific crime.

 

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