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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="3-508" title_number="3" title_name="Law Enforcement" subtitle_number="5">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Commission” means the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Law enforcement agency” has the meaning stated in § 3–201 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Office” means the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Police officer” has the meaning stated in § 3–201 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>“SWAT team” means a special unit composed of two or more police officers within a law enforcement agency trained to deal with unusually dangerous or violent situations and having special equipment and weapons, including rifles more powerful than those carried by regular police officers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Every 6 months, beginning July 1, 2022, a law enforcement agency that maintains a SWAT team shall report the following information to the Office using the format developed under subsection (c) of this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the number of times the SWAT team was activated and deployed by the law enforcement agency in the previous 6 months;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the name of the county or county and municipal corporation and the zip code of the location where the SWAT team was deployed for each activation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the reason for each activation and deployment of the SWAT team;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the legal authority, including type of warrant, if any, for each activation and deployment of the SWAT team; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the result of each activation and deployment of the SWAT team, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the number of arrests made, if any;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>whether property was seized;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>whether a forcible entry was made;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>whether a weapon was discharged by a SWAT team member; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>whether a person or domestic animal was injured or killed by a SWAT team member.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commission, in consultation with the Office, shall develop a standardized format that each law enforcement agency shall use in reporting data to the Office under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A law enforcement agency shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>compile the data described in subsection (b) of this section for each 6–month period as a report in the format required under subsection (c) of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>not later than the 15th day of the month following the 6–month period that is the subject of the report, submit the report to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Office; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>the local governing body of the jurisdiction served by the law enforcement agency that employs the SWAT team that is the subject of the report; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>if the jurisdiction served by the law enforcement agency that employs the SWAT team that is the subject of the report is a municipal corporation, the chief executive officer of the jurisdiction.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Office shall analyze and summarize the reports of law enforcement agencies submitted under subsection (d) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Before September 1 each year, the Office shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>submit a report of the analyses and summaries of the reports of law enforcement agencies described in paragraph (1) of this subsection to the Governor, the General Assembly as provided in § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, and each law enforcement agency; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>publish the report on its website.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a law enforcement agency fails to comply with the reporting provisions of this section, the Office shall report the noncompliance to the Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On receipt of a report of noncompliance, the Commission shall contact the law enforcement agency and request that the agency comply with the required reporting provisions.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the law enforcement agency fails to comply with the required reporting provisions of this section within 30 days after being contacted by the Commission with a request to comply, the Office and the Commission jointly shall report the noncompliance to the Governor and the Legislative Policy Committee of the General Assembly.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
