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[Sen. Nader Hashim (Chair)]: Your last it is May 1 in the Senate Judiciary. We're having a quick discussion on H one seventy one and just going to make sure that we're ready to vote. We're not voting on much, if anything, today. But I just want to make sure the committee's good to go on the language. Then we also have Legis Council here. Can you give us the reminder again of what this bill does? Sure.
[Michelle Johnson (Office of Legislative Counsel)]: For the record, Michelle Johnson, Office of Legislative Counsel, looking at Beach 181 as a came over from the house. 01/1171. Sorry. There's a lot of bills that are whose numbers are closed. And so this has to do with having the stakeholders get together and establish a protocol for interagency cooperation around when there is an officer involved shooting. So if you look at the language, subsection A is just some findings about why the journalists sometimes find this would be a good idea. Subsection B identifies the parties that would be involved. So it's the Attorney General's Office, DSAS, DPS, the Mono Association of Chiefs of Police. And so remember this is a situation of where you have an officer has been involved in a shooting and there is a subsequent investigation. And so because of potential conflicts in the local community where that occurred, there may be other agencies that are not usually working in that county. Could be the AAG's office is doing some. They could be that state police is looking at state police officers and local police. So what this proposal tries to do is just kind of gather everybody together. You'll see in subsection C, come up with some clear definitions of what constitutes an officer while shooting, what types of incidents would qualify, define conflict of interest, so kind of being able to have a clear guidance of when another agency should be come involved in the investigation. I'm not sure if we look at page two, delineate the process for informing the attorney general's office. The fast of an officer involved shooting, the steps for law enforcement investigations, describing the process for prosecutorial assessment of the investigative materials, and evaluating the process of investigation prosecutorial review to ensure timely criminal charges, if those are appropriate, and identifying and addressing the same barriers to timely criminal charges and terminations. And then the final one is outlining the final outcome of the investigation. So, are obviously these agencies are cooperating now with these types of incidents, but there isn't kind of like a formalized risk protocol that if there are inquiries by lawmakers about how the process goes, things like that. And so I think it's really just kind of aimed at having them come to an agreed upon process and having that something that people can understand what that process is. So you've seen subsection E, they're supposed to provide a report by December 1 to send out a possible meeting on the judiciary. And if there's any legislative recommendations they have, everybody put that in there. But it's really more about just for them establishing their internal phone call and making it available.
[Sen. Nader Hashim (Chair)]: And do you happen to know what dual independent assessments are in line five to publication?
[Michelle Johnson (Office of Legislative Counsel)]: I don't. I know, I can say that it was the groups that are identified in B that were kind of collaborating on what should be in the report, so that didn't come from them. It might have actually that position might come from APS specifically. I'll follow-up and so next time we pick this up by getting you or I'll shoot you
[Sen. Nader Hashim (Chair)]: an email. Sounds good. Any questions, issues? Are we like I said we're not building on this today but if we needed to consider it quickly next week and everybody comfortable with the way it's written right now? Yeah. Great. So we will keep a pen on that for next week, and we can take a recess for the next five minutes.