Vehicles: enforcement: motorcycle profiling.

Existing law authorizes a peace officer to arrest a person based on probable cause that the person has committed a public offense in the officer's presence or that the person has committed a felony, though not in the officer's presence. Existing law requires a person operating a vehicle upon a highway to comply with the lawful orders of a peace officer. Existing law also requires a vehicle to yield and stop if pursued by a marked law enforcement vehicle displaying a lighted red lamp and sounding a siren, as reasonably necessary. Existing law requires peace officers to receive training to recognize and eliminate criminal profiling based on race or identity. This bill would define the term "motorcycle profiling" as the illegal consideration of the fact that a person is riding a motorcycle or wearing motorcycle or motorcycle club-related clothing as a factor in enforcement decisions, and would prohibit peace officers from engaging in motorcycle profiling. This bill would also provide a private right of action for persons who are subjected to motorcycle profiling in violation of the provisions of this bill.