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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="3-108" title_number="3" title_name="Law Enforcement" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Police Accountability and Discipline">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A law enforcement agency shall designate an employee as a victims’ rights advocate to act as the contact for the public within the agency on matters related to police misconduct.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A victims’ rights advocate shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>explain to a complainant:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the complaint, investigation, administrative charging committee, and trial board process;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>any decision to terminate an investigation;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an administrative charging committee’s decision of administratively charged, not administratively charged, unfounded, or exonerated; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>a trial board’s decision;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide a complainant with an opportunity to review a police officer’s statement, if any, before completion of an investigation by a law enforcement agency’s investigative unit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>notify a complainant of the status of the case at every stage of the process; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>provide a case summary to a complainant within 30 days after final disposition of the case.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each law enforcement agency shall create a database that enables a complainant to enter the complainant’s case number to follow the status of the case as it proceeds through:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>investigation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>charging;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>offer of discipline;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>trial board;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>ultimate discipline; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>appeal.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
