Connecticut § 54-1l - l . Short title: Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act.
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§ 54-1l. l . Short title: Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act.
Sec. 54-1l. Short title: Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act. (a) This section and section 54-1m shall be known as the “Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act”.
(b) For purposes of this section, “racial profiling” means the detention, interdiction or other disparate treatment of an individual by a police officer on the basis, in whole or in part, of the perceived racial or ethnic status of such individual, except when such status is used in combination with other information when seeking to apprehend a specific suspect whose racial or ethnic status is part of the description of the suspect.
(c) No member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, a municipal police department or any other law enforcement agency shall engage in racial profiling.
(P.A. 99-198, S. 1; P.A. 03-160, S. 2; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; P.A. 23-9, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 03-160 inserted new Subsec. (a) providing that section and Sec. 54-1m shall be known as the “Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act” and redesignated existing Subsecs. (a) to (c) as new Subsecs. (b) to (d), effective June 26, 2003; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 23-9 redefined “racial profiling” in Subsec. (b), amended Subsec. (c) by deleting provision re detention of individual based on noncriminal factors as inconsistent with policy, and deleted Subsec. (d) re race or ethnicity as sole factor in making certain determinations, effective June 7, 2023.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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