No. SB 1426
Filed under Local Government.
Accessing Personnel Files of Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring the employing agency of a law enforcement officer to maintain in the personnel file or other public record a log documenting the name, address, and identification presented of any person requesting and receiving from the employing agency such files or records of such officer, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDWhenever an agency hands over a law enforcement officer's personnel file or other public record, it must log the name, address, and type of identification, if any, of the person who asked for and received it.
That log becomes part of the same file or record. Since the file itself remains public, the identities of earlier requesters could become visible to the next person who asks for it, including the officer.
Presenting identification is not required to receive the file -- the log simply records whatever type of ID, if any, the requester happened to show.
This creates a new, freestanding statute inside the chapter covering law enforcement officers' rights, rather than amending the state's general public-records law.
AIWhenever an employing agency furnishes a law enforcement officer's personnel file or other public record, it must maintain a log documenting the name, address, and type of identification presented, if any, of the person who requested and received it.
AIThe agency must keep this log inside the same personnel file or public record that was requested, rather than in a separate document, so the log travels with the file itself.
AIThe log must note the type of identification presented 'if any,' meaning a requester is not required to show identification at all before requesting and receiving the personnel file or other public record.