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Data on Interactions and Accountability for Law Enforcement with Individuals with Disabilities Act
3/13/2024, 7:41 PM
Summary of Bill S 1730
The bill also requires law enforcement agencies to develop policies and training programs to ensure that officers are properly trained on how to interact with individuals with disabilities in a respectful and appropriate manner. Additionally, the bill establishes a grant program to help law enforcement agencies implement these policies and training programs.
Overall, the Data on Interactions and Accountability for Law Enforcement with Individuals with Disabilities Act seeks to promote accountability and transparency in law enforcement interactions with individuals with disabilities, and to ensure that these individuals are treated with dignity and respect by law enforcement officers.
Congressional Summary of S 1730
Data on Interactions and Accountability for Law Enforcement with Individuals with Disabilities Act
This bill expands activities to collect data about interactions between law enforcement officers and individuals with disabilities.
In particular, the bill establishes a temporary advisory council within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a methodology for collecting and reporting data on interactions between law enforcement officers and individuals with disabilities. HHS must award a grant to an independent research organization or institution of higher education to test the validity and reliability of the council's methodology. The council must also provide the Department of Justice with best practices to collect disability status in cases where a death or injury occurred because of an interaction with law enforcement.
The bill also requires certain federal initiatives that collect information about interactions with law enforcement (e.g., the National Use-of-Force Data Collection) to include disability status.
Further, the Bureau of Justice must award a grant to an independent third-party organization (e.g., an institution of higher education) for identifying trends using certain survey data in violence committed by law enforcement officers against individuals with disabilities.
