Ohio’s Statewide Police Reform Policy Table

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Ohio’s Statewide Police Reform Policy Table

Together, we educate, we organize, we mobilize, and we build an Ohio that works for us all.

View our policy priorities:

    • Mandatory drug and alcohol testing of officer(s) after any use of force

    • The Ohio Attorney General’s office and any local Prosecutor’s Office must notify the immediate family of a victim of police violence about any public release of information or any press statements before the publication of that release

    • Implement community review boards at a local level to provide oversight for policing

    • Remove “interaction with law enforcement” restrictions from the Ohio Crime Victims Fund

    • Low-priority, non-violent 911 calls must receive an alternative response, to be determined by the 911 dispatcher based on locally available responders

    • Fully fund and train dispatch departments statewide to support only deploying officers for actual suspected crimes

    • Fully fund county efforts and other municipal efforts to increase mobile crisis response, mediation responders, mental health clinical response, and other alternative response program types

    • Remove collateral sanctions from peer responder certification eligibility

    • Create sustainable, reliable funding streams for Community Violence Interrupters and community-based violence prevention programming

    • Create sustainable, reliable funding streams for school-based violence interruption programming and school psychologists

    • End qualified immunity for police officers and replace it with mandatory licensing and insurance covering their professional activities

    • Mandate that professional insurance coverage for police officers be revoked for any officer terminated because of their actions in any officer-involved shooting so that that officer is no longer eligible to work as a police officer in the state of Ohio

    • Adopt and standardize specific policies restricting the use of deadly force. Officers shall not shoot their firearm:

      • If a community member is unarmed

      • If a community member is running away or trying to withdraw

      • If a community member is driving away or sitting in a parked car

      • If a community member is not armed with anything that could pose a threat including knives, screwdrivers, etc

      • If the officer is alone

    • All use-of-force complaints must be reviewed by the local community review board. Officers who have a complaint of excessive force must be furloughed (unpaid) until the complaint is resolved via a partnership with the impacted family or community members, the county prosecutor, and the representatives of that officer

    • Disciplinary records of police officers must be searchable and accessible public records

    • Professional minimum training hours increased to 80 hours of training annually, with a minimum curriculum to include: implicit bias training, and de-escalation training

    • Create designated statewide funding for mental health support programming for all first responders, and strengthen mental health programming already available to police officers

    • Standardize that police departments cannot use black targets for target practice

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We are led by Ohio families directly impacted by police brutality

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