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Traffic-stop statistics bill divides senators over privacy and policing; tie vote returns measure to the House
Summary
First substitute House Bill 199, which would encode race/ethnicity on driver's licenses and create a traffic-stop database, sparked a lengthy and emotional floor debate about privacy, profiling, and tribal/jurisdictional impacts; the Senate vote resulted in an effective tie and the bill was returned to the House.
A proposal to require coded race and ethnicity markers on Utah driver's licenses and to collect traffic-stop statistics touched off one of the session's most heated debates on Feb. 14.
Sponsor Senator Suazo and Representative Bordeaux (bill sponsor in the House, described in the Senate) framed first substitute House Bill 199 as a response to allegations of racial profiling in traffic enforcement; the database would use coding conforming to U.S. Census categories and let agencies and the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice analyze…
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