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Confidential Informants:
- Creates "Rachel's Law";
- requires law enforcement agency to disclose certain information to persons requested to be informants;
- requires law enforcement agency to provide opportunity to consult with legal counsel to person requested to serve as informant;
- requires training for persons involved with recruitment & use of informants;
- requires agency to adopt policies & procedures to preserve safety of informants, law enforcement personnel, target offenders, & public;
- requires agency that uses confidential informants to address recruitment, control, & use of informants in its policies & procedures;
- requires agency to establish policies & procedures to assess suitability of potential informants;
- requires agency to establish procedures to maintain security of records relating to informants;
- requires agency to periodically review informant practices;
- provides that act does not grant any right or entitlement to informant or person who is requested to be informant;
- provides that any failure to abide by act does not create any additional right enforceable by defendant in criminal proceeding
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Effective Date: July 1, 2009 |
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