2024 -- S 2673 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE | |
POLICE | |
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Introduced By: Senators Bissaillon, and Ciccone | |
Date Introduced: March 01, 2024 | |
Referred To: Senate Judiciary | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Chapter 12-2 of the General Laws entitled "Railroad, Steamboat, and Bridge |
2 | Police" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: |
3 | 12-2-9. Privacy protections for railway employees. |
4 | (a) Any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between police |
5 | officers and railroad crew members involved in such fatality shall not be made public and shall be |
6 | maintained by the police department that responds to such fatality in a manner that shall ensure |
7 | confidentiality; provided, however, that all such reports shall be accessible at all reasonable times, |
8 | upon written request, to: |
9 | (1) The host railroad; |
10 | (2) The railroad of employ of any employee mentioned in such reports; and |
11 | (3) Any other person authorized by judicial order to obtain such information if access to |
12 | such report is necessary in the performance of their duties; and provided, further, that all such |
13 | reports shall be accessible at all reasonable times, upon written or electronic mail request to law |
14 | enforcement officers, or the office of attorney general. |
15 | (b) Communications between police officers and railroad employees concerning any |
16 | railroad fatality incident may be shared with any person listed in subsection (a) of this section if |
17 | such access is necessary to the performance of their duties. |
18 | (c) A violation of this section shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one |
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1 | year or by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both. |
2 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE | |
POLICE | |
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1 | This act would provide any police report involving a railroad fatality and all |
2 | communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, this act would |
3 | make a violation of this section a misdemeanor. |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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