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Commissioner urges changes to firearm-transfer rules, evidence retention and training in HB 6859
Summary
Commissioner Ronnell Higgins told the Public Safety Committee HB 6859 would align sexual-assault-kit retention with other evidence, require police to opt in to ATF eTrace, clarify juvenile-offense disclosures and ease probate transfers now slowed by a three-handgun-per-30-day limit.
Commissioner Ronnell Higgins of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection told the Public Safety and Security Committee he strongly supports House Bill 6859, saying the bill "illustrates the goals and the steps being taken by DESPP to improve operational efficiency and exemplify excellence." He detailed sections that would change evidence-retention rules, juvenile-offense disclosure procedures and security-guard training for less-lethal weapons.
Higgins said section 1 would align the retention policy for sexual-assault kits with other forms of evidence and that section 3 would require law-enforcement agencies to opt in to ATF’s eTrace system. "The eTrace system had…
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