Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

H.B. 673
                          GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                                                                               Apr 22, 2021
                                      SESSION 2021                                       HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK
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                                     HOUSE BILL DRH40404-ND-96
     Short Title:   Expand Traffic Stop Data Reporting.                                           (Public)
     Sponsors:      Representative Richardson.
     Referred to:
 1                                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 2   AN ACT TO EXPAND AND CLARIFY STATEWIDE TRAFFIC STOP DATA REPORTING
 3       AND COLLECTION.
 4   The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
 5               SECTION 1. G.S. 143B-903 reads as rewritten:
 6   "§ 143B-903. Collection of traffic law enforcement statistics.
 7       (a)     In addition to its other duties, the Department of Public Safety shall collect, correlate,
 8   and maintain the following information regarding traffic law enforcement by law enforcement
 9   officers:
10               …
11               (15) The geographic location of the stop; if the officer making the stop is a member
12                       of the State Highway Patrol, the location shall be the Highway Patrol District
13                       and the longitude and latitude or mile marker in which the stop was made; for
14                       all other law enforcement officers, the location shall be the city or county and
15                       the longitude and latitude, nearest address, intersection, or mile marker in
16                       which the stop was made.
17       …
18       (d)     Each law enforcement officer making a stop covered by subdivision (1) of subsection
19   (a) of this section shall be assigned an anonymous identification number by the officer's
20   employing agency. agency and that number shall be used by the officer in all stop reports. The
21   anonymous identifying number shall be public record and shall be reported to the Department to
22   be correlated along with the data collected under subsection (a) of this section. The correlation
23   between the identification numbers and the names of the officers shall not be a public record, and
24   shall not be disclosed by the agency except when required by order of a court of competent
25   jurisdiction to resolve a claim or defense properly before the court.
26       …."
27               SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2021, and applies to (i) data
28   collected on or after that date and (ii) citations, criminal processes, and other State forms
29   completed by law enforcement officers on or after that date.
                                     *DRH40404-ND-96*
Statutes affected: 
Filed: 143B-903
Edition 1: 143B-903