HB 110

Abstract

Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes theauthority of a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body.Under current law, law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies may (i) receive,investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conductof law-enforcement officers and civilian employees; (ii) investigate and issuefindings on incidents, including the use of force by a law-enforcement officer,death or serious injury to any person held in custody, serious abuse ofauthority or misconduct, allegedly discriminatory stops, and other incidentsregarding the conduct of law-enforcement officers or civilian employees; (iii)make binding disciplinary determinations in cases that involve serious breachesof departmental and professional standards; (iv) investigate policies,practices, and procedures of law-enforcement agencies and make recommendationsregarding changes to such policies, practices, and procedures; (v) review allinvestigations conducted internally by law-enforcement agencies and issuefindings regarding the accuracy, completeness, and impartiality of suchinvestigations and the sufficiency of any discipline resulting from suchinvestigations; (vi) request reports of the annual expenditures oflaw-enforcement agencies and make budgetary recommendations; (vii) make publicreports on the activities of the law-enforcement civilian oversight body; and(viii) undertake any other duties as reasonably necessary for the law-enforcementcivilian oversight body to effectuate its lawful purpose to effectively overseethe law-enforcement agencies as authorized by the locality.