2006 Kansas Code - 22-4606

      22-4606.   Racial and other profiling; definitions. As used in this act:

      (a)   "Governmental unit" means the state, or any county, city or other political subdivision thereof, or any department, division, board or other agency of any of the foregoing.

      (b)   "Law enforcement agency" means the governmental unit employing the law enforcement officer.

      (c)   "Law enforcement officer" has the meaning ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 74-5602, and amendments thereto.

      (d)   "Racial profiling" means the practice of a law enforcement officer or agency relying, as the sole factor, on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender or religious dress in selecting which individuals to subject to routine investigatory activities, or in deciding upon the scope and substance of law enforcement activity following the initial routine investigatory activity. Racial profiling does not include reliance on such criteria in combination with other identifying factors when the law enforcement officer or agency is seeking to apprehend a specific suspect whose race, ethnicity, national origin, gender or religious dress is part of the description of the suspect.

      (e)   "Routine investigatory activities" includes, but is not limited to, the following activities conducted by law enforcement officers and agencies in conjunction with traffic stops: (1) Frisks and other types of body searches, and (2) consensual or nonconsensual searches of persons or possessions, including vehicles, dormitory rooms, school lockers, homes and apartments.

      (f)   "Collection of data" means that information collected by Kansas law enforcement officers after each traffic [stop].

      History:   L. 2005, ch. 159, § 1; July 1.