Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements of members.

Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements. Requires every member appointed to a locality's law-enforcement civilian oversight body to observe a law-enforcement officer employed withsuch locality's law-enforcement agency while such law-enforcementofficer is engaged in his official duties. The bill also providesthat any disciplinary determination recommended by a law-enforcementcivilian oversight body shall be advisory and that if any law-enforcement agency declines to implement such recommendation, such agency shallcreate and make available to the public within 30 days from the datesuch recommendation is reported to such agency a written public recordof its rationale for declining to implement such recommendation.The bill requires that such observation take place within 90 days of the member's appointment to the civilian oversight body and totalno fewer than 24 hours, a portion of which includes a ride-along witha law-enforcement officer. The bill also requires each law-enforcement civilian oversight body to include at least one retired law-enforcementofficer as a voting member; under current law, a retired law-enforcementofficer may serve on such body as an advisory, nonvoting ex officio member.