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2021 SESSION
HB 2291 Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs.
Introduced by: Angelia Williams Graves | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs. Adds a sheriff's office to those law-enforcement agencies that may be overseen by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by a locality and adds a nonprobationary deputy sheriff of a sheriff’s office to those law-enforcement officers who are subject to such body if created by a locality. The bill provides that any disciplinary determinations made by the law-enforcement civilian oversight body on any nonprobationary deputy sheriff shall be advisory only and that if the sheriff's office declines to implement such disciplinary determination, the office shall create a public written record of its rationale for declining to implement the recommended disciplinary determination.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs. Adds a sheriff's office to those law-enforcement agencies that may be overseen by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by a locality and adds a nonprobationary deputy sheriff to those law-enforcement officers who are subject to such body if created by a locality.