Ohio Senate Bill 107 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on April 9 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-04-09 - To Judiciary Civil Justice
Pending: Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

To amend sections 4112.01 and 4112.05 and to enact sections 2933.84 and 4112.024 of the Revised Code to specify that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice that is within the jurisdiction of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission for any law enforcement agency or officer in Ohio to engage in racial profiling; to require the Commission to compile data from law enforcement agencies regarding routine or spontaneous investigatory activities of the agencies' officers and analyze the data for significantly significant disparities related to the race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender of the subjects of the activities; to provide for Commission access to LEADS to obtain the data and require law enforcement agencies to enter the data on LEADS; and to require law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy designed to eliminate racial profiling by the agency and its officers and to cease existing practices by the agency and its officers that permit or encourage racial profiling.

To specify that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice that is within the jurisdiction of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission for any law enforcement agency or officer in Ohio to engage in racial profiling; to require the Commission to compile data from law enforcement agencies regarding routine or spontaneous investigatory activities of the agencies' officers and analyze the data for significantly significant disparities related to the race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender of the subjects of the activities; to provide for Commission access to LEADS to obtain the data and require law enforcement agencies to enter the data on LEADS; and to require law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy designed to eliminate racial profiling by the agency and its officers and to cease existing practices by the agency and its officers that permit or encourage racial profiling.

Sen. Eric Kearney [D]	Sen. Dale Miller [D]	Sen. Ray Miller [D]	Sen. Thomas Sawyer [D]
Sen. Nina Turner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-04-09		To Judiciary Civil Justice
2009-04-09		Introduced to House

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
29			New Code	See Bill Text
29	33		New Code	See Bill Text
29	33	84	New Code	See Bill Text
41			Amended Code	Citation Text
41	12		Amended Code	Citation Text
41	12	01	Amended Code	Citation Text
41	12	024	New Code	See Bill Text
41	12	05	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_SB_107
Text	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_107_I_Y.html