§52D-3.5 Reports to legislature. (a) The chief of each county police department shall submit to the legislature no later than January 31 of each year an annual report of misconduct incidents that resulted in suspension or discharge of a police officer. The reporting period of each report shall be from January 1 to December 31 of the year immediately prior to the year of the report submission.
(b) The report shall:
(c) The report shall tabulate the number of police officers suspended and discharged under the following categories of the department's Standards of Conduct:
(d) The summary of facts provided in accordance with subsection (b)(1) shall not be of such a nature so as to disclose the identity of the individuals involved, except as required under subsection (b)(5).
(e) For any misconduct incident reported pursuant to this section and subject to subsection (b)(4)(B), the chief of each county police department shall provide updated information in each successive annual report, until the highest nonjudicial grievance adjustment procedure timely invoked by the police officer has concluded. In each successive annual report, the updated information shall reference where the incident appeared in the prior annual report. For any incident resolved without disciplinary action after the conclusion of the nonjudicial grievance adjustment procedure, the chief of each county police department shall summarize the basis for not imposing disciplinary action.
(f) For each misconduct incident reported in an annual report, the chief of each county police department shall retain the disciplinary records in accordance with the department's record retention policy or for at least eighteen months after the final annual report concerning that incident, whichever period is longer. [L 1995, c 242, §3; am L 2014, c 121, §1; am L 2020, c 47, §2]