Attorney General releases racial profiling model policy for law enforcement

TOPEKA (December 29, 2011) Kansas law enforcement agencies
now have available for their use a Model Policy on Racial and Other
Bias-Based Policing, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt
announced today. The Attorney Generals Office developed the model
policy to assist local law enforcement officials in adopting their
own policies to comply with a law passed by the legislature earlier
this year. This model policy will help our Kansas law enforcement
agencies be better prepared to address racial and other bias-based
policing concerns, Schmidt said. Having policies in place will help
communities across Kansas understand the efforts to eliminate bias
in the enforcement of our laws. The law enacted earlier this year
shifts responsibility for receiving citizen complaints that allege
racial or other bias-based policing from the Kansas Human Rights
Commission to the Attorney Generals Office. The model policy and an
accompanying implementation guide were made available today on the
attorney generals website at www.ksag.org.