JUSTICE REFORM POLICY AGENDA SAVE LIVES HOLD ACCOUNTABLE CHANGE CULTURE • Amend body attachment statute — No custody • Ban no-knock warrants • Ban racial profiling • Ban use of chokeholds & neck restraints • Decriminalization of marijuana — Include sentencing modification and MBE/WBE/VBE goals • Decriminalization of mental illness — Strike teams for non-violent events and direct funding to treatment options • Decriminalize Jim Crow-era/ non-violent crimes • Develop inclusive hate crime law • Malicious false reporting to a law enforcement agency — Allow for a civil action and relief • Protester protection • Reduce jail overcrowding — Amend bail statutes according to Chief Justice Rush’s recommendations, including decreasing Level 6 felonies • Reduction of GPS monitoring — During pretrial issue, the same credit as being jailed pending trial • School Resource Officers — Remove and replace with social workers • Study of juvenile criminal justice system • Study on racism as health crisis • SWAT — Local police departments develop internal policies that call for appropriate restraints on the use of SWAT or paramilitary deployment • Annual evaluation of all executed searches, warrants, arrests, use of force and lethal use of force incidents to determine bias • Automatic external investigation — Shooting of unarmed/retreating civilians • Civil forfeiture — Allow portions of funds obtained to be redirected to communities for neighborhood development/redevelopment • Enhanced penalties for shootings involving officers — investigation by State Police • Independent liability insurance — Requirement of all law enforcement agencies • Law enforcement officers held accountable for not appearing in drug search cases • Preamble for criminal code — criminal justice system to be administered for the purpose of restoration to society and rehabilitation • Community policing — Require officers to live in the city of employment and assign to those communities; receive preference in hiring • Confidential whistleblower complaint process for officers • Hiring law enforcement officers — Mental health testing, expand national background checks utilizing the National Decertification Index, and review of social media accounts • Issue of summons to appear vs. arrest • Licensing/certification program for law enforcement officers • Mental health reviews for all law enforcement officers semi-annually • Officer training — Review and update annually, perform throughout year and make more interactive, and expand training on implicit bias, dispute resolution, de-escalation methods and sexual orientation. EMPOWER COMMUNITIES • Establish a statewide youth justice advisory group • Increase work with community groups — access federal public safety innovation grants • Independent civilian review boards — Disciplinary authority, diverse composition and increased training • Statewide citizen review board — Review cases of police misconduct and use of fatal excessive force indianahousedemocrats.org/iblc @inblackcaucus Disclaimer: Subject to change without notice. IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY • Fraternal Order of Police contracts — Public record on Indiana Transparency Portal and require public hearing for renewal • Law enforcement lawsuits — Attorney General to collect data on offenses and funds spent to settle lawsuits • Monitor law enforcement officers with a history of complaints/violations • Publicly report lethal force involving law enforcement • State audits on public safety funds • Statewide public database — Citizen complaints against law enforcement officers, and list of disciplined and terminated officers • Statewide use of and funding for body and dashboard cameras • Use of force continuum data collection — Include use of force incidents, type of force used and the demographics of officers and civilians involved