ASSEMBLY, No. 5439

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 23, 2019

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  GORDON M. JOHNSON

District 37 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires law enforcement agencies to provide internal affairs and personnel files of law enforcement officers to other agencies under certain circumstances.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning law enforcement agencies and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  Prior to appointing an applicant who was previously employed by another law enforcement agency in this State, every State, county, and municipal law enforcement agency shall request the files, including but not limited to internal affairs and personnel files, of the applicant from each law enforcement agency that employed the applicant. 

     b.    Every State, county, and municipal law enforcement agency that receives a request pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall provide the applicant’s files to the State, county, or municipal law enforcement agency that requested them.  

     c.     The Attorney General shall issue guidelines or directives necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month after enactment, but the Attorney General may take any administrative action in advance of the effective date as may be necessary.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires law enforcement agencies to provide internal affairs and personnel files of law enforcement officers to other law enforcement agencies under certain circumstances.

     Under the provisions of this bill, prior to appointing an applicant who was previously employed by another law enforcement agency in this State, every State, county, and municipal law enforcement agency is required to request the files, which include but are not limited to internal affairs and personnel files, of the applicant from each law enforcement agency that employed the applicant.

     The bill requires every State, county, and municipal law enforcement agency that receives a request pursuant to the provisions of this bill to provide the applicant’s files to the law enforcement agency that requested them.