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House floor debate over removing officers' race and gender from DPS database
Summary
A proposed cleanup in House Bill 191 to remove officer race and gender from a Department of Public Safety database drew heated debate: proponents called it a cost-saving cleanup, opponents said removing the fields would weaken statistical analysis of stops and profiling.
House members spent extended floor time on House Bill 191, which removes a requirement that the Department of Public Safety maintain race and gender data for officers in its database. Sponsor statements framed the change as a "cleanup" intended to reduce unnecessary data collection and save costs for the state criminal-justice data system.
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