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1/22/2024
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Media Advisory: Senate Judiciary Committee to hear bills on police reform Tuesday
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STATE HOUSE – This Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear separate bills that would amend the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights and add additional reporting and study of traffic stop and search data.
The committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 4 p.m. Room 313 on the third floor of the State House to hear two bills related to law enforcement reform:
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2024-S 2096 — This bill, introduced by Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (D-Dist. 4, North Providence, Providence), would amend the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights (LEOBOR) by expanding the number of committee members to five by adding a retired judge and the executive director of the Nonviolence Institute to the three law enforcement officers presently included. It would also extend the period of summary punishment within a law enforcement department before a LEOBOR hearing is required from two days to 14.
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2024-S 2137 — This bill, introduced by Senate Deputy Majority Whip Ana B. Quezada (D-Dist. 2, Providence), would amend the 2015 comprehensive community-police relationship act to require an annual study by an outside agency on traffic stop and search data related to racial disparities and monthly review and annual reporting by law enforcement agencies statewide on traffic stop and search data. It would also create an advisory committee to the office of highway safety.
Written testimony must be submitted to the committee clerk, Lindsay Bazile, at senatejudiciary@rilegislature.gov prior to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 23, in order for it to be provided to the members of the committee at the hearing and to be included in the meeting records. Sign-up sheets for in-person testimony will be available in the hearing room.
The meeting will be televised live by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
For more information, contact:
Tristan Grau, Publicist
State House Room B20
Providence, RI 02903
401.222.4935
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