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Racial & Identity Profiling Advisory Board Annual Report 2019, Racial & Identity Profiling Advisory Board
Racial & Identity Profiling Advisory Board Annual Report 2019, Racial & Identity Profiling Advisory Board
Civil Rights & Human Rights
California's Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIPA) is truly groundbreaking legislation - the first of its kind and scale in the United States. This law requires nearly all California law enforcement agencies to collect, maintain, and analyze demographic data on all detentions and searches, thereby codifying the recommendation of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing which aimed to improve understanding and create evidence based policies through this data collection. The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (Board) was created by the Act to shepherd this data collection and provide public reports with the ultimate objective to …