The House Select Committee on Community Relations, Law Enforcement and Justice met on December 14, 2020.
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The Committee approved a draft report to be presented to the NCGA.
- Create additional statwide law enforcement training require and provide additional educational and training resources
- Create requirements for law enforcement agencies to report disciplinary actions, resignations, and terminations
- Create whistlblower protection for officers that report misconduct
- Provide law enforcement with additional resources encountering mental health issues in the field
- Provide law enforcement with additional resources to recieve mental health treatment
- Increase availability of specialty courts
- Ban the use of chokeholds
- Require law enforcement to report use of force incidents
- Mandate the duty to intervene and the duty to report miscondcut
- Fund pilot program for student law enforcment career exploration
- Establish a system to allow infividuals to recieve notification of court dates