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Committee approves amendment to SB 525 to set sheriff training tiers, expand public-safety status for corrections staff and raise penalties for recklessness
Summary
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety approved Amendment 8 to Senate Bill 525, adopting tiered training for Marion County deputy certification, extending public-safety status to Department of Corrections employees, changing school resource officer rules, increasing criminal-recklessness penalties and adding new felony language,
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety unanimously approved Amendment 8 to Senate Bill 525 on a voice/consent roll call, moving the bill forward as amended with 11 members voting in favor and one member excused.
The amendment establishes tiered training and certification changes for Marion County sheriff’s deputies, clarifies benefits eligibility for Department of Corrections employees, modifies rules for school resource officers, raises the penalty for criminal recklessness and adds new language criminalizing shooting from or into vehicles or buildings.
Representative Ireland, the bill presenter, said the “first 4 pages is really the meat of this bill, which is a, an agreement between all the stakeholders,” and thanked the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, the State Police, the Marion…
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