Bill would require standardized reporting, checkbox for deaths in custody on death records
Senate Bill 291 would codify Delaware's reporting of deaths in law enforcement custody, require standardized quarterly affirmations and create an annotation on death records; medical and innocence advocates testified that the measure would improve transparency and help prevent wrongful convictions.
The full story
Senator Pinckney presented Senate Bill 291, a measure to formalize Delaware's death-in-custody reporting procedures. The bill would require law enforcement agencies to report deaths of individuals in custody to the Statistical Analysis Center using standardized procedures and forms, require quarterly affirmations even when no deaths occurred, and instruct medical examiners to annotate death records when a person died while in custody.
Sign up to keep reading.
Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.