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Public-safety committee hears broad support for banning ticket and arrest quotas
Summary
Lawmakers and law-enforcement witnesses told the House Public Safety Committee that bills banning ticket- and arrest-based quotas would protect officer discretion and public trust; sponsors said the measures would ban quotas as a basis for discipline, create an Attorney General reporting mechanism, and do not prevent traffic-safety assignments.
The House Public Safety Committee heard hours of proponent testimony on measures to ban ticket and arrest quotas, with sponsors and law-enforcement witnesses saying the bills are intended to protect officers’ discretion and restore public trust.
Senator Tom Patton, the sponsor of Senate Bill 114, told the committee the measure “prohibits law enforcement agencies from using tickets or arrest quotas as the basis for evaluation, compensation, or discipline,” and that it would create a reporting system allowing officers to complain to the attorney general’s office, which the bill would require to investigate each report. Patton said the bill “would not prohibit police chiefs from assigning officers to traffic units to monitor traffic safety” but instead targets “using ticket quotas as the basis of…
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