Know your new rights.

1. Prohibition on racial profiling and other forms of profiling: police cannot use race, ethnicity, color, national origin, use of foreign language, gender identity/ expression, sexual orientation, police affiliation, housing status, physical or mental instability, or serious medical condition as a reason to suspect someone of a crime.

2. Electronic Data collection report form every time they stop someone. The report will include statistics such as age, race and gender as well as the reason the individual was stopped. The stopped individual can get a copy of the report within three days of the incident.

3. Video Recording by Police:

• Police must state when recording is happening unless there is a good reason not to.

• Police may not use their personal phones to record while on duty.

• Individuals have the right to view and listen to recordings involving them in a reasonable time and location within ten business days of the incident.

4. Video Recording by People:

• Police cannot interfere with anyone recording if they are not doing anything illegal

• Police cannot intentionally block someone’s camera

5. Traffic Stops: Police must tell driver why they were stopped before asking for identification. Police cannot ask for more than license, registration and insurance unless they have reasonable suspicion of a crime. Police cannot ask passengers for I.D. unless they have reasonable suspicion.

6. Searches: If police ask for permission to search a person or their stuff, the police must tell the individual about their RIGHT TO SAY NO.

Trans people have the right to state their preferred gender when being searched, and everyone has the right to be searched by their own gender, except in an emergency.

7. Surveillance and Privacy: An individual can’t be targeted for surveillance without police having reasonable suspicion. Police cannot go undercover to infiltrate groups based solely on speech or other First Amendment protected rights.

8. Privacy-Youth and Immigrants:

• When police ask a youth appearing under 18 for ID, and the youth states that they have no ID, the police cannot keep asking.

• Police cannot photograph youth except when booking, when relating to a crime (victim or a suspect), or at large scale events.

• Police cannot ask about a person’s immigration status, use lack of ID as “reasonable suspicion for a crime”, or share information with ICE.

• Police must accept a person’s ID from a foreign government.

9. “Gang” lists:

• The police department must make their gang database criteria public, which cannot include race, residence or association.

• Individuals have the right to ask if they are on the gang database. Police must notify the individual within ten days, unless they are being investigated.

• For people under 18, police must send a letter to their parent/ guardian before being placedon the gang database.

• Everyone added to the gang database has the right to appeal to PERA to take their names off.

10. Language Access:

• Police must use a language access ”hotline” to provide interpreting.

• Family/ friends cannot be used as interpreters except in an emergency.

• Written materials must be translated into the 5 most common languages.

11. Collaboration with other law enforcement agencies: Formal agreements between Providence Police and other law enforcement agencies will be public and posted to the PPD website. A police officer cannot detain an individual on the request from another agency, like ICE.

12. ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENFORCEMENT:

AN INDIVIDUAL CAN SUE THE CITY IF A POLICE OFFICER VIOLATES ANY PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE! The Providence External Review Authority (PERA) can investigate complaints of violations of the CSA, issue reports about how the police is doing, review all their proposed policies, and review proposed labor contracts with police.