Posted on 01/18/2007 11:30:47 AM PST by Little Bill
HB 58 – AS INTRODUCED
2007 SESSION
07-0021
09/01
HOUSE BILL 58
AN ACT requiring municipalities to establish volunteer civilian police review boards.
SPONSORS: Rep. T. Robertson, Ches 3
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
ANALYSIS
This bill requires municipalities to establish volunteer civilian police review boards.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0021
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT requiring municipalities to establish volunteer civilian police review boards.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Volunteer Civilian Police Review Boards. Amend RSA 105 by inserting after section 13-b the following new section:
105:13-c Volunteer Civilian Police Review Boards.
I. The governing body of each municipality shall establish a volunteer civilian police review board. The board shall hold meetings, at such times and places and according to such procedures as the board deems necessary, for the purpose of hearing complaints regarding law enforcement officers or law enforcement activities within the municipality. The board may make advisory recommendations regarding law enforcement officers or law enforcement activities to the police chief of the municipality or governing body of the municipality or both.
II. The governing body shall appoint at least 3 members to the board. No law enforcement officer or employee may serve as a member of the board. Of the initial members, at least one member shall serve a one-year term, at least one member shall serve a 2-year term, and the remaining members shall serve 3-year terms. Members shall be eligible for reappointment. After the initial terms expire, each member shall serve a 2-year term. Members shall serve without compensation.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
NH Legislative ping. FReep mail me to get on or off. It is easier to get on than off, I don't read my FReep mail all that often.
As a former NH town cop the problem with this bill is the same with all boards appointed by the governing body.
Witch hunting.
Glad to see our new reps are hard at work solving nonexistent problems. To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, we're about to get all the government we voted for, and get it good and hard.
The only problem I might have is using the LEO's as a revenue enhancement organization. Other than that I have no problems with the performance of the Cops in my very small town.
The Activism sidebar is reserved for News/Activism of the FR chapters.
And the FR sidebar is reserved for FR business.
Not this.
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There is no FR Chapter in NH as I see it. We have lost many potential activists through a lack of communication.</P>
We are in a position where we can become Massachusetts North if we don't communicate, If that is the rule, I submit.
Man Law. (I"m in).
Police Review Boards-that is so 1960's
Police Review Boards-that is so 1960's
Granite State Bump
This bill was ITLed in committee already.
I agree that all towns should have civilian review boards to keep tabs on the police, but I don't like the state telling them to do it.
Believe me, Rochester could use some reviewing of the police, and some butt-kicking. We don't have town meetings, per se, as we have a Council, not a Board of Selectmen. No input, and it just keeps getting worse.
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