Twenty eight states were required to amend comparable laws after a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision declared them "cruel and unusual." Minnesota is one of just four that have not acted.

Two decades after the law was enacted, a WBEZ investigation finds that Illinois traffic stops of Black drivers have reached a 20-year high. IL law fails to fix racial profiling in traffic stops ...

Assembly Bill 953 - the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 - which was authored by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), requires agencies to submit whether the officer perceives the ...

Lawmakers demand change after a Fox 8 investigation exposed a law meant to prevent police from racial profiling may be leading to inaccurate data collection during traffic stops.

ST. LOUIS • For the last 12 years, statistics filed in accordance with the state's racial profiling law have put police on the defense and community activists on edge — but this year is ...

The new law specifies that those who are stopped will not be asked to provide their race, rather the police officer making the traffic stop will collect the data by using using their perception of ...

Then-llinois state Sen. Barack Obama, D-Chicago, sponsored groundbreaking legislation to combat racial profiling by police with the 2003 Illinois Traffic Stop Statistical Study Actr.

In February of this year, seven years of work by the ACLU of West Virginia and others came to fruition when the final report of the West Virginia Traffic Stop Study was released. The study was ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska published a report analyzing racial bias in traffic stops, listing existing anti-racial profiling policies, evaluating current anti-bias training ...

NYPD officers will have to document every traffic stop — whether or not they result in tickets or other legal action — to accommodate a new city law meant to ensure vehicles aren’t pulled ...

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