| Chapter 268 |
| 2021 -- S 0119 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 07/14/2021 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL |
Introduced By: Senators de la Cruz, Rogers, Paolino, F Lombardi, Lombardo, E Morgan, and Ciccone |
| Date Introduced: January 26, 2021 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 42-9-12.1 of the General Laws in Chapter 42-9 entitled "Department |
| of Attorney General" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 42-9-12.1. Annual gun crimes law enforcement report. |
| (a) The attorney general shall annually, on or before March 31, make a report in writing to |
| the general assembly showing the transactions of the attorney general's office in relation to the |
| enforcement of law with respect to crimes involving a gun during the prior year ending on |
| December 31. |
| (b) The report shall show for each of the counties of the state contain the total number of |
| non-warranted indictments and information cases with respect to crimes charges involving a gun |
| firearm in all courts in the state of Rhode Island pending filed at the beginning of during the |
| calendar year,. The report shall also contain all and the number of warranted indictments and |
| information cases with respect to crimes charges involving a firearm which that have been disposed |
| of during the calendar gun pending at the beginning of the year, the number of indictments returned |
| and informations filed in these cases during the year, the number of indictments and informations |
| disposed of in these cases during the year: |
| (1) By jury trial; |
| (2) By jury waived trial; |
| (3) Without jury trial on plea of guilty or nolo contendere; and |
| (4) By a nol pros; and the number of non-warranted and warranted indictments and |
| informations pending at the end of the year. |
| (c) The report shall also show the number of offenders in these cases punished by sentence |
| or imprisonment, or by the payment of a fine, or by both fine and imprisonment, or by suspended |
| or deferred sentence or probation disposition of each case, with the sentences and fines specified |
| in each instance. |
| (d) The report shall be subdivided to show the sex of the offenders and the age of the |
| offenders, arranged by decades. by and specifically include each court docket number and the |
| charge or charges associated with it. |
| (e) For each report beginning with the report due March 31, 2023, the reports shall show |
| whether the firearm or firearms at issue in each case was a rifle, semi-automatic rifle, shotgun, |
| revolver, semi-automatic handgun, or miscellaneous firearm. |
| (f) The report shall be compiled using statistics provided by the Rhode Island statewide |
| judicial information system and may be supplemented by data maintained by the attorney general's |
| office. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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