Shavonda Sumter Co-Sponsored (Introduced) this Legislation.
Title: Requires Cultural Diversity and Implicit Bias Training for Law Officers
Vote to pass a bill that requires cultural diversity and implicit bias training for law enforcement officers.
Requires the Department of Law and Public Safety to expand the cultural diversity training course materials and an online tutorial to include implicit bias training (Sec. 1).
Requires components of the training course materials and an online tutorial to include instruction on understanding implicit bias and employing strategies to eliminate unconscious biases that shape behavior and produce a disparate treatment of individuals based on their race, ethnicity, religious belief, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics (Sec. 1).
Requires every state, county, and municipal law enforcement department and every campus police department at an institution of higher education to provide in-service training of its personnel utilizing the training course materials or online tutorial developed or identified by the Department of Law and Public Safety once every 5 years (Sec. 1).
Specifies that this act will take effect on the first day of the seventh month following enactment (Sec. 1).
Title: Requires Cultural Diversity and Implicit Bias Training for Law Officers
Title: Requires Cultural Diversity and Implicit Bias Training for Law Officers