Bill Text: NC S809 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Comm
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-11 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S809 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S809-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
S 1
SENATE BILL 809*
Short Title: Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Comm. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Senator Robinson (Primary Sponsor). |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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June 11, 2018
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the city of greensboro to disclose limited personnel information concerning the disposition of disciplinary charges against a police officer to a board or committee designated by the city council to provide citizen review of the police disciplinary process.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 160A‑168(c), as amended in Section 1 of S.L. 2001‑20 and applicable to the City of Greensboro only, reads as rewritten:
"(c) All information contained in a city employee's personnel file, other than the information made public by subsection (b) of this section, is confidential and shall be open to inspection only in the following instances:
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(8) In order to facilitate
citizen review of the police disciplinary process, the city manager or the
chief of police, or their designees designees, may release the
disposition of disciplinary charges against a police officer and the facts
relied upon in determining that disposition to the Human Relations Commission
Complaint Subcommittee, any board or committee designated by the city
council to provide citizen review of the police disciplinary process, and the
city manager, chief of police, or their designees, and the board or committee may
release the disposition of the disciplinary charges and the facts relied
upon in determining that disposition to the person alleged to have been
aggrieved by the officer's actions or to that person's survivor. Commission The
members of the board or committee shall maintain as confidential all
personnel information released to them under this subdivision that is not a
matter of public record under this section, and any member who violates that
confidentiality is guilty of the violations set forth in subsections (e) and
(f) of this section. Each member of the Commission board or committee
shall execute and adhere to a confidentiality agreement that is
satisfactory to the city. For purposes of this subdivision, the term
"disposition of disciplinary charges" includes determinations that
the charges are sustained, not sustained, unfounded, exonerated, classified as
an information file, or classified as any other disciplinary disposition
category subsequently adopted by the Greensboro Police Department."
SECTION 2. This act applies to the City of Greensboro only.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.