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SCS/SBs 331 & 21 - This act modifies and enacts provisions relating to law enforcement officers. DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY BASED ON CIVIL UNREST - 44.100 This act requires the Governor, at the request of the county health department, to assign a sufficient number of state social workers, counselors, or psychologists to provide counseling and mental health services in the region affected by the unrest. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND PROTESTS - 590.711 This act requires law enforcement agencies to have policies requiring law enforcement officers on duty at protests to wear visible, accurate identification tags when feasible. LAW ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS - 590.810 This act declares that any footage from a camera worn by a police officer or attached to a police officer's vehicle, watercraft, aircraft, or other device is an investigative report for purposes of the state's open records laws. This act prohibits the state from requiring peace officers to wear cameras or attach cameras to their vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, or other devices. The state is also prohibited from requiring law enforcement agencies to provide such cameras to their officers. Under this act, recordings captured by such cameras must be retained by the law enforcement agency for at least 30 days and no longer than 90 days unless the recording is needed for an active criminal investigation or being used as evidence in a criminal case or civil litigation. MEGHAN LUECKE
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