Police Transparency and Accountability Task Force

Public Act 19-90 Sec. 6 as amended by Sec. 12 of Public Act 20-1 of the July Special Session:
The task force shall examine: (1) Police officer interactions with individuals with a mental, intellectual or physical disability; (2) merits & feasibility of police officers who conduct traffic stops issuing a receipt to each individual being stopped including reason for stop & demographic information of stopped person; (3) strategies utilized by communities to increase recruitment, retention & promotion of minority police officers, (4) strategies utilized by communities to increase recruitment, retention & promotion of female police officers; (5) merits & feasibility of requiring police officers to procure & maintain professional liability insurance as condition of employment; (6) merits & feasibility of requiring a municipality to maintain professional liability insurance on behalf of its police officers; (7) establishment of primary & secondary traffic violations in the general statutes; (8) establishment of requirement in the general statutes that any police traffic stop be based on enforcement of a primary traffic violation; (9) how a police officer executes a warrant to enter a residence without giving audible notice of the police officer's presence, authority & purpose before entering, including verification procedures of address where warrant is to be executed & documentation that police officer leaves for the residents where the warrant was executed; (10) how a professional bondsman, a surety bail bond agent or a bail enforcement agent take into custody the principal on a bond who failed to appear in court & for whom a rearrest warrant or a capias has been issued, including what process of address verification is used & whether any documentation is left with a resident where the warrant was executed; (11) whether any of the grounds for revocation or cancellation of a police officer certification should result in mandatory revocation by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, as opposed to discretionary revocation; and (12) any other police officer and transparency and accountability issue the task force deems appropriate