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Committee hears sponsor testimony for ban on ticket and arrest quotas; questions on supervision and metrics
Summary
House Bill 131 would ban written or unwritten ticket or arrest quotas for law enforcement. Sponsors said the change protects officer discretion and public trust; members asked how supervisors could evaluate performance without numeric targets and about fine disposition transparency.
Representatives Kevin Miller and Rose Sweeney presented House Bill 131, a bipartisan proposal to prohibit law-enforcement agencies from imposing written or implicit quotas for tickets or arrests. Sponsors said the bill would preserve officers' professional discretion and reduce perverse incentives to generate revenue through…
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