AN ACT CONCERNING THE ALVIN W.

PENN ACT
Sec. 1. Section 54-1l of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted
in lieu thereof:
(a) This section and section 54-1m shall be known as the Alvin W. Penn Racial
Profiling Prohibition Act.
(b) For the purposes of this section, racial profiling means the detention, interdiction or
other disparate treatment of an individual solely on the basis of the racial or ethnic
status of such individual.
(c) No member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency
Services and Public Protection, a municipal police department or any other law
enforcement agency shall engage in racial profiling. The detention of an individual
based on any noncriminal factor or combination of noncriminal factors is inconsistent
with this policy.
(d) The race or ethnicity of an individual shall not be the sole factor in determining the
existence of probable cause to place in custody or arrest an individual or in constituting
a reasonable and articulable suspicion that an offense has been or is being committed
so as to justify the detention of an individual or the investigatory stop of a motor vehicle.
(e) In addition to proceeding under section 46a-64 of the general statutes, any person
who believes that he or she has been the victim of racial profiling in violation of this
section, or that such persons rights under subsection (a) or subdivision (2) of
subsection (b) of section 54-1m of the general statutes have been violated, may file a
complaint with the commission on human rights and opportunities under section 46a-82
of the general statutes. Information about how to contact the commission on human
rights shall be provided to motor vehicle operators in English and Spanish at the time of
any such traffic stops.
Sec. 2. Subdivision (8) of section 46a-51 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (July 1, 2015):
(8) "Discriminatory practice" means a violation of section 4a-60, 4a-60a, 4a-60g, 46a58, 46a-59, 46a-60, 46a-64, 46a-64c, 46a-66, 46a-68, 46a-68c to 46a-68f, inclusive, or
46a-70 to 46a-78, inclusive, subsection (a) of section 46a-80, [or] sections 46a-81b to
46a-81o, inclusive, or section 54-1l;