The draft bill includes roughly 40 sections. Among the highlights:
— Create an independent office of inspector general to investigate use of force cases and prosecute when necessary.
— Require all officers to periodically have mental health screenings.
— Change state’s “use of force” policy, moving from a subjective standard to a more objective standard for when force is appropriate.
— Require an officer to intervene if they witness excessive use of force by police and provide that officer with whistleblower protections.
— Increase training requirements for police to include things like implicit bias and how to manage crowds of people.
— Make police disciplinary records subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
— Replace the entire membership of Police Officer Standards and Training Council by the end of 2020 with new people who have different skill sets and represent a greater diversity of communities. The reconstituted council would have expanded ability to pull the state certification of officers.
— Require body and dashboard cameras for all officers engaging with the public.
— Increase the penalties for making a false police report based on a race, gender, national origin or sexual identity.
— Place limits on the type of military-grade equipment municipalities can obtain through the federal government.
— Ban quotas for pedestrian stops by police.
— Request police departments to review whether they can use social workers in lieu of sending officers to certain calls and impose stronger reporting requirements for departments when force is used.
— Allow more municipalities to appoint citizen police review boards.