2024

Aggravated felony for harming law enforcement animal.

Comprehensive set of rights for victims of police violence, including access to information, compensation, right to petition prosecutor to reopen the case.

Requires every municipality to post on its website, by February 1, information about every settlement or judgment of $50k or more reached in the previous year resulting from a lawsuit alleging police misconduct.

As introduced, creates a Class E felony of a law enforcement officer operating a law enforcement body camera in any manner that would prevent the creation or recordation of evidence with the intent to obstruct justice.

Allows a recording made by a body-worn camera or dashboard camera used by law enforcement to be considered a public record, making the recording subject to public inspection.

Creates right of action for violations of rights by law enforcement under Tennessee Constitution, eliminates QI.

Department of Corrections and county sheriffs to provide every inmate being held in a state correctional institution or county house of correction with three hours per week of outdoor time, unless the inmate is being held in the Milwaukee secure detention facility, in which case the three-hour per week requirement does not apply until the inmate's 91st day of holding at that institution.

NPAP is proud to support the End Solitary Confinement Act (ESCA), a robust piece of federal legislation introduced by Congresswoman Cori Bush, in partnership with Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Adriano Espaillat, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Rashida Tlaib, and Bonnie Watson Coleman, that would:

Specifying requirements for and limitations and restrictions on the use of restrictive housing; providing documentation requirements for staff members directly involved in using restrictive housing for an individual; specifying conditions required in restrictive housing, etc.