HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 861        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1378

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act clarifying the collection of data relative to traffic stops..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 228 of the Acts of 2000 is hereby amended by striking section 2 and inserting in place thereof the following section:

Section 2. The executive office of public safety shall work with the department of state police and municipal police departments to ensure that adequate efforts are being made to identify any instances of racial and gender profiling by police officers in the performance of their official duties and the elimination of such  racial and gender profiling. 

SECTION 2. Said Chapter 228 is hereby further amended by striking out section 9 and inserting in place thereof the following section:

Section 9. Individual data required under this act shall be used only for statistical purposes and may not contain any information