Kansas Statutes 22-4609. Profiling prohibited as basis for making stop, search or arrest
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 22-4609
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
- Racial or other biased-based policing: means the unreasonable use of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender or religion by a law enforcement officer in deciding to initiate an enforcement action. See Kansas Statutes 22-4606
It is unlawful to use racial or other biased-based policing in:
(a) Determining the existence of probable cause to take into custody or to arrest an individual;
(b) constituting a reasonable and articulable suspicion that an offense has been or is being committed so as to justify the detention of an individual or the investigatory stop of a vehicle; or
(c) determining the existence of probable cause to conduct a search of an individual or a conveyance.