DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers tasked with crafting legislation to collect data on racial profiling finished months of work by failing to agree on any significant measures to introduce next year.
A committee of six lawmakers on Wednesday agreed to introduce only a measure that would let people voluntarily identify their race and ethnicity on their driver’s licenses and identification cards. But that bill was meant to work in conjunction with another proposal that would let law enforcement issue citations electronically to make it easier to compile data.
That proposal would start with six agencies and the state patrol, but it was estimated to cost $7.3 million next year. That concerned Republicans who voted against it. They also worried the data collected would be missing historical and demographic patterns for context.
