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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="3-504" title_number="3" title_name="Law Enforcement" subtitle_number="5">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “quota” means the mandating of a finite number of arrests made or citations issued that a law enforcement officer must meet in a specified time period.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A law enforcement agency may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>establish a formal or informal quota for the law enforcement agency or law enforcement officers of the agency; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>use the number of arrests made or citations issued by a law enforcement officer as the sole or primary criterion for promotion, demotion, dismissal, or transfer of the officer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This section does not preclude a law enforcement agency from:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>using quantitative data for arrests, citations, and other law enforcement activities as management tools or in evaluating performance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>collecting, analyzing, and applying information concerning the number of arrests and citations in order to ensure that a particular law enforcement officer or group of law enforcement officers does not violate an applicable legal obligation; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>assessing the proportion of the arrests made and citations issued by a law enforcement officer or group of law enforcement officers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
