Arizona Revised Statutes Title 38. Public Officers and Employees § 38-1118. Use-of-force incidents; data collection; reports; rules; public records; definitions

A. A law enforcement agency shall collect and report use-of-force incidents involving law enforcement officers to the Arizona criminal justice commission beginning January 1, 2022. A law enforcement agency shall submit reports on use-of-force incidents to the Arizona criminal justice commission at least annually thereafter. The reported data may not include any identifying information on a law enforcement officer and the data collected and reported shall be consistent with the federal bureau of investigation's national use-of-force data collection.

B. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall establish procedures governing the collection and reporting of use-of-force incident data that are consistent with the requirements, definitions and methods of the national use-of-force data collection.

C. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall publish the data reported during the immediate past year under subsection A of this section beginning March 1, 2023 and on or before March 1 of each year thereafter, including statewide aggregate data and agency-specific data, in a publicly available database.

D. On or before January 1, 2025, the Arizona criminal justice commission shall conduct an analysis of law enforcement agency use-of-force rates reported pursuant to this section and shall release the analysis of trends or disparities in the use-of-force incident data, if any, to the public. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall update this report at least once every five years.

E. For the purposes of this section: