Document Type
Peach Sheet
Abstract
In 2004, the Georgia General Assembly considered a bill to amend the portion of the Georgia Code dealing with motor vehicles and traffic. HB 1327 would have prohibited the use of race or ethnicity in forming probable cause or reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle and would have mandated data collection for all traffic stops by state and local law enforcement officers. Law enforcement personnel would have recorded this information on a form that the Department of Motor Vehicles would have devised. The Georgia Attorney General would have then analyzed this data to test for racial profiling. Additionally, HB 1327 would have (1) required law enforcement agencies to create policies that prohibit using race or ethnicity in determining whether to stop a motorist, (2) required annual training on impermissible uses of race and ethnicity in stopping vehicles, and (3) mandated data collection by all state and local agencies.
Recommended Citation
Jason Sheffield,
MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC Racial Profiling: Amend the Official Code of Georgia so as to Require Policies that Prohibit Law Enforcement Officers from Impermissibly Using Race or Ethnicity in Determining Whether to Stop a Motorist; Require Annual Training of Law Enforcement Officers on Impermissible Uses of Race and Ethnicity in Stopping Vehicles; Require Law Enforcement Officers to Document the Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of a Motorist and Passengers; Provide for Other Matters Relative Thereto; Repeal Conflicting Laws; and for Other Purposes,
21
Ga. St. U. L. Rev.
(2004).
Available at:
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol21/iss1/4