California Police Don’t Have to State Gender in Reports to Anti-Bias Panel, Court Rules

Published on May 9, 2024

Police in California no longer will be asked to disclose their gender identity to an anti-discrimination board for traffic stops after a recent ruling in Sacramento County Superior Court. Regulations that began in January under California Attorney General Rob Bonta required police officers to include if they are cisgender, transgender, or nonbinary in reports they submit on traffic stops, with the data used to analyze if an officer’s gender affected who they stopped. The reports are submitted to the state’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board, which was established in 2015 to reduce alleged racial profiling by police. Since it was formed, officers have been required to submit reports with information on the people they stop, including their gender, but not their own....

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