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SECTION 31-21.1-2

§ 31-21.1-2 Declaration and policy. –The general assembly declares that the use of racial profiling for stopping orsearching motorists on our public highways is against public policy andviolates the civil rights of the motorist. For purposes of this chapter,"racial profiling" means the detention, interdiction or other disparatetreatment of an individual on the basis, in whole or in part, of the racial orethnic status of such individual, except when such status is used incombination with other identifying factors in seeking to apprehend a specificsuspect whose racial or ethnic status is part of the description of thesuspect. The purpose of this chapter is to conduct a study of the traffic stopsby the police to determine whether racial profiling is occurring and to requirethat police prohibit the practice of racial profiling.

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SECTION 31-21.1-2

§ 31-21.1-2 Declaration and policy. –The general assembly declares that the use of racial profiling for stopping orsearching motorists on our public highways is against public policy andviolates the civil rights of the motorist. For purposes of this chapter,"racial profiling" means the detention, interdiction or other disparatetreatment of an individual on the basis, in whole or in part, of the racial orethnic status of such individual, except when such status is used incombination with other identifying factors in seeking to apprehend a specificsuspect whose racial or ethnic status is part of the description of thesuspect. The purpose of this chapter is to conduct a study of the traffic stopsby the police to determine whether racial profiling is occurring and to requirethat police prohibit the practice of racial profiling.

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SECTION 31-21.1-2

§ 31-21.1-2 Declaration and policy. –The general assembly declares that the use of racial profiling for stopping orsearching motorists on our public highways is against public policy andviolates the civil rights of the motorist. For purposes of this chapter,"racial profiling" means the detention, interdiction or other disparatetreatment of an individual on the basis, in whole or in part, of the racial orethnic status of such individual, except when such status is used incombination with other identifying factors in seeking to apprehend a specificsuspect whose racial or ethnic status is part of the description of thesuspect. The purpose of this chapter is to conduct a study of the traffic stopsby the police to determine whether racial profiling is occurring and to requirethat police prohibit the practice of racial profiling.