State: Indiana

Relates to law enforcement training,requires law enforcement officers to receive training in identifying, responding to, and reporting bias motivated crimes in which the person who committed a criminal offense selected the victim who was injured or whose property was damaged because of the victim’s actual or perceived race, color, creed, disability, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.

Relates to law enforcement training,requires law enforcement officers to receive training in identifying, responding to, and reporting bias motivated crimes in which the person who committed a criminal offense selected the victim who was injured or whose property was damaged because of the victim’s actual or perceived race, color, creed, disability, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.

Relates to battery and murder by an officer,makes the penalty for battery committed by a law enforcement officer acting within the scope of the officer’s duty the same level as battery committed on a law enforcement officer,makes murder committed by a law enforcement officer acting within the scope of the officer’s duty an aggravating circumstance permitting imposition of the death penalty.

Relates to mental health assessment of law enforcement officers,requires the law enforcement training board to establish psychological fitness for duty policies, procedures, and standards for law enforcement officers,specifies certain topics and issues to be considered by the board when establishing psychological fitness for duty policies, procedures, and standards,requires officers to undergo a psychological fitness for duty examination after one or more of the following events an officer’s return.

Relates to battery and murder by an officer,makes the penalty for battery committed by a law enforcement officer acting within the scope of the officer’s duty the same level as battery committed on a law enforcement officer,makes murder committed by a law enforcement officer acting within the scope of the officer’s duty an aggravating circumstance permitting imposition of the death penalty.

Relates to law enforcement officers,requires the Indiana law enforcement training board to establish mandatory training in de-escalation as part of the use-of-force curriculum,requires de-escalation training to be provided as a part of pre-basic training, mandatory inservice training, and the executive training program,establishes a procedure to allow the Indiana law enforcement training board to decertify an officer who has committed misconduct,defines chokehold,prohibits the use of a chokehold.

Relates to mental health assessment of law enforcement officers,requires the law enforcement training board to establish psychological fitness for duty policies, procedures, and standards for law enforcement officers,specifies certain topics and issues to be considered by the board when establishing psychological fitness for duty policies, procedures, and standards,requires officers to undergo a psychological fitness for duty examination after one or more of the following events an officer’s return.

Relates to law enforcement officers,requires the Indiana law enforcement training board to establish mandatory training in de-escalation as part of the use-of-force curriculum,requires de-escalation training to be provided as a part of pre-basic training, mandatory inservice training, and the executive training program,establishes a procedure to allow the Indiana law enforcement training board to decertify an officer who has committed misconduct,defines chokehold,prohibits the use of a chokehold.

Requires the law enforcement training board to establish a law enforcement misconduct database that gives the public access to information on disciplinary actions against law enforcement officers,provides that the database collects and publishes information from law enforcement agencies of certain entities,provides that the data base is limited to certain disciplinary actions.

Relates to state police investigation of use of force,requires the State Police Department to investigate when a law enforcement officer uses force in attempting to apprehend or gain physical control of a person resulting in death or serious bodily injury to the person,requires the law enforcement agency that employs the law enforcement officer to cooperate with the department in its investigation, but not participate in the investigation, or conduct an internal administrative investigation.

Relates to police department budgets,requires a police department of a county, city, or town to report crime data to the criminal justice division of the state police department,prohibits a unit from reducing the police department’s budget except in circumstances of a unit that has a shortfall in property tax revenue within the two calendar years preceding the most recent certified budget and decreases the budgets of all of its departments by the same percentage for the ensuing year.

Relates to annual review of law enforcement actions for bias,provides that the chief executive officer of a law enforcement department or agency in the state shall be the officer in charge of an investigation when there is a complaint made against, or an internal investigation of, as law enforcement officer involving bias or prejudice.