RACIAL-PROFILING BILL AGAIN PROPOSED BY LAWMAKERS

Police departments would have to record the race of people stopped by
officers under a bill proposed by two Los Angeles-area Democrats.

Gov. Gray Davis has rejected similar bills in the past. He is the only
sitting governor who has vetoed racial profiling legislation.

Some local departments voluntarily collect the information. About 70 of the
state's 385 law enforcement agencies have applied for state grants to pay
for the information gathering.

The bill by Assemblymen Marco Firebaugh and Jerome Horton would make all
police departments collect the information four years after the effective
date of the bill.