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Committee adopts amendments to require police and sheriff data collection and forwards ordinance to full Board

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee · July 23, 2015
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Summary

Supervisor Belia Cohen’s ordinance to expand data collection by the Police and Sheriff’s departments — including race, age, and gender-related reporting for detentions, searches and traffic stops — was amended and the Rules Committee forwarded it to the full Board with a positive recommendation.

Supervisor Belia Cohen introduced an ordinance to expand law-enforcement data collection to better measure and prevent biased policing. The ordinance requires both the San Francisco Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department to collect and report data on stops and detentions — including officer badge numbers, the result of the contact (arrest, citation, warning, incident report), uses of force and demographic information such as race and age. For gender identity, the…

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