{"id":44035,"date":"2020-06-09T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44035"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:20:08","slug":"justice-in-policing-act-of-2020-some-proposals-on-arrest-and-frisk-qualified-immunity-use-of-force-and-no-knock-warrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44035","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Justice in Policing Act of 2020, some proposals on arrest and frisk, qualified immunity, use of force, and no-knock warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/justice_in_policing_act_of_2020.pdf?utm_campaign=2926-519\">Justice in Policing Act of 2020<\/a> in the House of Representatives: some proposals on arrest and frisk, qualified immunity, use of force, and searches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u00a7 103, repeals case law on qualified immunity in revised \u00a7 1983 (pdf at 6:14-7:9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u00a7 341, requires the Attorney General to issue regulations on data collection of racial disparity in arrests, frisks, and searches (pdf 58:21 ff)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u00a7 362, bans no-knock warrants in federal drug cases and denies federal funds to state and local governments without such a policy (pdf at 66:1-66:22):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>SEC. 362. BAN ON NO-KNOCK WARRANTS IN DRUG CASES.<br \/>     (a) BAN ON FEDERAL WARRANTS IN DRUG CASES.\u2014 Section 509 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 879) is amended by adding at the end the following: &#8220;A search warrant authorized under this section shall require that a law enforcement officer execute the search warrant only after providing notice of his or her authority and purpose.\u201d.<br \/>     (b) DEFINITION.\u2014In this section, the term \u201cno-knock warrant\u201d means a warrant that allows a law enforcement officer to enter a property without requiring the law enforcement officer to announce the presence of the law enforcement officer or the intention of the law enforcement officer to enter the property.<br \/>     (c) LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDS.\u2014Beginning in the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, a State or local jurisdiction may not receive funds under the COPS grant program for a fiscal year if, on the day before the first day of the fiscal year, the State or other jurisdiction does not have in effect a law that prohibits the issuance of a no-knock warrant in a drug case. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u00a7 363, incentivizes banning of chokeholds and carotid holds (pdf at 66:23 ff) and makes a chokehold a federal criminal civil rights violation (18 U.S.C.  \u00a7 241) in \u00a7 363(e)(2). (pdf 67:14-68:2) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u00a7 372, it requires federal officers who make arrests or searches wear body camera and activate them. (pdf at 95:22 ff)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From House Judiciary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A section-by-section summary of the&nbsp;Justice in Policing Act of 20<em>20&nbsp;<\/em>is available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/components\/redirect\/r.aspx?ID=3023-57\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p>A fact sheet on the&nbsp;Justice in Policing Act of 2<em>020&nbsp;<\/em>is available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/components\/redirect\/r.aspx?ID=3024-57\">here<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed Justice in Policing Act of 2020 in the House of Representatives: some proposals on arrest and frisk, qualified immunity, use of force, and searches: In \u00a7 103, repeals case law on qualified immunity in revised \u00a7 1983 (pdf at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44040,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44035\/revisions\/44040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}