{"data":{"id":"us-az/a.r.s.-38-1118","jurisdiction":"us-az","citation":"A.R.S. § 38-1118","heading":"Use-of-force incidents; data collection; reports; rules; public records; definitions","body":"A. A law enforcement agency shall collect and report use-of-force incidents involving law enforcement officers to the Arizona criminal justice commission beginning January 1, 2022. A law enforcement agency shall submit reports on use-of-force incidents to the Arizona criminal justice commission at least annually thereafter. The reported data may not include any identifying information on a law enforcement officer and the data collected and reported shall be consistent with the federal bureau of investigation's national use-of-force data collection.\n\nB. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall establish procedures governing the collection and reporting of use-of-force incident data that are consistent with the requirements, definitions and methods of the national use-of-force data collection.\n\nC. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall publish the data reported during the immediate past year under subsection A of this section beginning March 1, 2023 and on or before March 1 of each year thereafter, including statewide aggregate data and agency-specific data, in a publicly available database.\n\nD. On or before January 1, 2025, the Arizona criminal justice commission shall conduct an analysis of law enforcement agency use-of-force rates reported pursuant to this section and shall release the analysis of trends or disparities in the use-of-force incident data, if any, to the public. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall update this report at least once every five years.\n\nE. For the purposes of this section:\n\n1. \"Law enforcement agency\" means a law enforcement agency of this state or a political subdivision of this state, including the department of public safety, a municipal, city, town, county and tribal police agency, a sheriff and special jurisdiction police.\n\n2. \"National use-of-force data collection\" means the national use-of-force data collection that is established and administered by the federal bureau of investigation to provide nationwide statistics on law enforcement use-of-force incidents.\n\n3. \"Serious physical injury\" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-105.\n\n4. \"Use-of-force incident\" means an incident in which any of the following occurs:\n\n(a) A law enforcement officer's use of force is connected to a person's death.\n\n(b) A law enforcement officer's use of force is connected to a person receiving a serious physical injury.\n\n(c) In the absence of death or serious physical injury, a law enforcement officer discharged a firearm at or in the direction of a person.","path":["Title 38 Public Officers and Employees"],"source_url":"https://www.azleg.gov/ars/38/01118.htm","current_through":"2026-09-04","vintage":"2026-08-09","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:49:56Z","sha256":"f369ae6ee3900356c857afb38a3c816f7b30dc6863426be556bfe2e434fd84cd","source_id":"us-az","stale":true,"prev":"us-az/a.r.s.-38-1117","next":"us-az/a.r.s.-38-1119"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}