HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Racial-Profiling Bill Again Proposed By Lawmakers
Pubdate: Tue, 13 Mar 2001
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Copyright: 2001 San Jose Mercury News
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RACIAL-PROFILING BILL AGAIN PROPOSED BY LAWMAKERS

Police departments would have to record the race of people stopped by 
officers under a bill proposed by two Los Angeles-area Democrats.

Gov. Gray Davis has rejected similar bills in the past. He is the only 
sitting governor who has vetoed racial profiling legislation.

Some local departments voluntarily collect the information. About 70 of the 
state's 385 law enforcement agencies have applied for state grants to pay 
for the information gathering.

The bill by Assemblymen Marco Firebaugh and Jerome Horton would make all 
police departments collect the information four years after the effective 
date of the bill.
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