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Committee hears broad policing package including wrongful-detention damages, forfeiture reforms and officer screening
Summary
HB1801 combines wrongful-detention damages, civil-forfeiture procedural changes, mandatory psychological screening and penalties for false police reports; county jail and chiefs' association warned of fiscal and operational burdens, while the Institute for Justice supported several forfeiture reforms.
Representative Ellen Reed presented HB1801, a multi-part bill that would (1) create a statutory wrongful-detention remedy with hourly damages and a burden shift to the state once a prima facie case is established, (2) modify civil forfeiture procedures to include more protections and prompt hearings, (3) add psychological screening to officer certification/recertification requirements for certain officers, and (4) make false statements in written police reports a punishable offense.
Reed framed the wrongful-detention provision as a tool to hold departments accountable and to compensate…
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