Each law enforcement agency in the state that interviews a candidate for a peace officer position who has worked at another law enforcement agency or in private security shall require the candidate to execute a waiver. The waiver will allow the candidate's previous law enforcement agency or private security company employers to disclose all files pertaining to the applicant, including internal affairs files, to the interviewing agency and releases the interviewing agency and each law enforcement agency or private security company that employed the candidate from any liability related to the use and disclosure of the files. The interviewing agency must submit the waiver to each law enforcement agency or private security company at least 10 days before making a hiring decision. A state or local law enforcement agency or private security company that receives a waiver shall provide the disclosure to the Colorado law enforcement agency that is interviewing the candidate not more than 7 days after such receipt. The bill requires a P.O.S.T. certification applicant who has worked at another law enforcement agency to execute the same waiver as described above. Under current law, the P.O.S.T. board must deny certification to a person who was convicted of any felony and certain misdemeanors. The bill gives the P.O.S.T. board the authority to deny certification to a person who entered into a deferred judgment, deferred prosecution, diversion agreement, or deferred adjudication for any of those crimes or had a juvenile adjudication for any of those crimes.
Year
2016
Current status
- Governor Signed (06/10/2016)