Report Urges End to Driver Consent Searches
New Jersey state troopers would be banned from asking permission to search a driver’s vehicle during a routine traffic stop under a plan being considered by lawmakers who investigated allegations of racial profiling.
The recommendation is part of a 110-page Senate Judiciary Committee draft, a copy of which was obtained by Associated Press.
Chief among the proposals in the draft report is a request that Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco sign an executive order ending so-called consent searches. Members of the Black Ministers Council of New Jersey have repeatedly called for such a ban.
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