2004 Senate Bill 1328 ↩

Senate Roll Call 544: Passed

To allow a local corrections officer authorized by the county sheriff to use electro-muscular disruption devices (tasers). The bill would also add a definition of "peace officers" allowed to use tasers, which includes state and municipal police; motor carrier officers; state Capitol security personnel; sheriff deputies; college, or university police or public safety officers; township constables; city, village, or township marshals; state conservation officers; law enforcement officers from another state; and federal law enforcement officers. Under current law, citizens are prohibited from possessing tasers.