[§139-13] Vehicular pursuit. (a) Beginning January 1, 2027, no law enforcement officer shall engage in a vehicular pursuit unless:
(b) Beginning January 1, 2027, in any vehicular pursuit under this section:
(c) Beginning January 1, 2027, any law enforcement officer who engages in a vehicular pursuit that fails to satisfy the requirements of this section shall terminate the pursuit. The supervising law enforcement officer shall order the pursuing law enforcement officer to terminate the pursuit as soon as the supervising law enforcement officer determines that the pursuit, or continued pursuit, would not be authorized under this section.
(d) Beginning January 1, 2027, no law enforcement officer shall fire a weapon at, into, or from a moving vehicle unless:
(e) Beginning January 1, 2027, each law enforcement agency shall annually furnish to the department of the attorney general, in a manner defined and prescribed by the department of the attorney general, a report of all vehicular pursuits conducted in the prior year by law enforcement officers employed by the law enforcement agency.
(f) Each report required under subsection (e) shall include, at a minimum, the following information for each vehicular pursuit:
(g) The department of the attorney general shall make all information obtained from law enforcement agencies under subsection (e) publicly available on the department of the attorney general's website, classified by law enforcement agency, in a manner that is clear, understandable, and machine-readable.
(h) No law enforcement agency shall report or make publicly available the name, address, social security number, or other unique personal identifying information of the persons pursued. Law enforcement agencies shall be solely responsible for ensuring that personal identifying information of individuals pursued is not transmitted to the department of the attorney general or otherwise released to the public.
(i) No later than:
(j) The policies under subsection (i)(4) shall be presumed to be a public record. Redaction of limited portions of these policies shall be permitted only if:
(k) The policies under subsection (i)(4), including their component procedures, general orders, special orders, regulations, and guidance, related to vehicular pursuits, shall include the month and year during which they were last updated.
(l) If any law enforcement agency adopts new or revised policies under subsection (i)(4), the policies shall be made publicly available within thirty days of the adoption.
(m) The board shall develop minimum requirements for both introductory and in-service training for law enforcement officers and supervising law enforcement officers on vehicular pursuits to explain the requirements of this section and any implementing rules and guidance. The board shall require law enforcement officers and supervising law enforcement officers to complete in-service training on vehicular pursuits every two years.
(n) Each law enforcement agency shall, as part of its pursuit policies, make clear to law enforcement officers and supervising law enforcement officers that any violation of the policies shall result in discipline, up to and including termination.
(o) The attorney general may investigate and, if warranted, bring a civil action against any law enforcement agency to obtain equitable or declaratory relief to enforce this section.
(p) For the purposes of this section:
"Law enforcement agency" has the same meaning as in section 78-52.
"Law enforcement vehicle" means a county law enforcement vehicle, department of law enforcement vehicle, or department of land and natural resources division of conservation and resources enforcement vehicle authorized and approved pursuant to section 291-31.5.
"Vehicle" has the same meaning as in section 286-2.
"Vehicle contact action" means any action undertaken by the pursuing law enforcement officer intended to result in contact between the moving law enforcement vehicle and the pursued vehicle.
"Vehicle paralleling" means a deliberate offensive tactic by one or more law enforcement vehicles where they are driven alongside the pursued vehicle while the pursued vehicle is in motion.
"Vehicular pursuit" or "pursuit" means an attempt by a law enforcement officer in a law enforcement vehicle to stop a moving vehicle where the operator of the moving vehicle appears to be aware that the law enforcement officer is signaling the operator of the moving vehicle to stop the vehicle and the operator of the moving vehicle appears to wilfully resist or ignore the law enforcement officer's attempt to stop the vehicle by increasing vehicle speed, making evasive maneuvers, or operating the vehicle in a reckless manner that endangers the safety of the community or law enforcement officer.
Following a vehicle whose operator fails to yield to the law enforcement officer's signal to stop for a brief period of time no longer than necessary to obtain basic information about the vehicle and its occupants shall not constitute a pursuit if both the law enforcement officer and operator continue to substantially obey all other traffic laws during the brief period the officer is following the operator, and the officer reasonably believes that briefly following the vehicle would not increase the threat that either the operator's or the officer's driving poses a danger to the safety of the public or other officers. [L 2025, c 210, §2]