CONCORD, NH Judges could receive annual implicit bias training and a state pool of funds could be developed for local police body and dashboard cameras under a bill now being considered at the State House.
These and a number of other recommendations for change from the 2020 governor s Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency were heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
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information on driver s licenses relative to race and ethnicity
a change in juvenile delinquency definition
details related to school resource officers.
There is a lot of bipartisan support for the bill.
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Responding to a national crisis, a sort of racial reckoning following the videotaped death in May 2020 of a Black man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white police officer in Minnesota, Gov. Chris Sununu established the LEACT commission.
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Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Tuesday on police reform legislation. Screenshot
CONCORD, NH – Judges could receive annual implicit bias training and a state pool of funds could be developed for local police body and dashboard cameras under a bill now being considered at the State House.
These and a number of other recommendations for change from the 2020 governor’s Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency – were heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
Senate Bill 96-FN-A would also require or establish:
information on driver’s licenses relative to race and ethnicity
a change in juvenile delinquency definition
Jim Kenyon: Some New Hampshire legislators being bought by the badge
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Cops are quick to claim their overarching mission is to protect and serve. In New Hampshire, they’re pretty good at playing politics too.
Over the years, New Hampshire’s state troopers, municipal police officers and police chiefs have used their nonprofit entities to funnel thousands of dollars into lobbying the Legislature and supporting the campaigns of pet lawmakers.
With the 2021 legislative session barely underway, law enforcement groups are already hard at work to pass Senate Bill 39, which would shield cops from increased public scrutiny. The proposed legislation would override a pair of 2020 state Supreme Court decisions intended to improve the odds of the public gaining access to internal investigations into police misconduct, under th