No state or municipal law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency shall engage in racial profiling. For purposes of this chapter, “racial profiling” means the detention, interdiction or other disparate treatment of an individual on the basis, in whole or in part, of the racial or ethnic status of such individual, except when such status is used in combination with other identifying factors seeking to apprehend a specific suspect whose racial or ethnic status is part of the description of the suspect, which description is timely and reliable.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-21.2-3
Ban on racial profiling
Known as the Racial Profiling Prevention Act
The act spans §§ 31-21.2-1 to 31-21.2-8 (8 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Lopera v. Town of Coventry (2011)
Most recently applied in Lopera v. Town of Coventry (April 2011)
P.L. 2004, ch. 331, § 1; P.L. 2004, ch. 356, § 1.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.