SB 39  - AS INTRODUCED

2021 SESSION

21-1003

04/08

SENATE BILL 39

AN ACT exempting information and records contained in law enforcement personnel files from disclosure under the right-to-know law.

SPONSORS: Sen. Carson, Dist 14

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

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ANALYSIS

This bill exempts information and records contained in personnel files, internal investigations, and pre-employment background investigations of any state or local law enforcement officer from public access or disclosure under the right-to-know law.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

21-1003

04/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One

AN ACT exempting information and records contained in law enforcement personnel files from disclosure under the right-to-know law.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1  New Paragraph; Access to Governmental Records and Meetings; Exemption for Law Enforcement Personnel Records.  Amend RSA 91-A:5 by inserting after paragraph XI the following new paragraph:

XII.  Information and records contained in personnel files, internal investigations, and pre-employment background investigations of any state or local law enforcement officer.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.