A Bill to Help Law Enforcement Officers (R)
BE IT ENACTED BY THE STATE OF FIRESTONE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1: Section I of the Bill of Rights shall be amended.
SECTION 2: Section I of the Bill of Rights currently states,
“Citizens shall be free of prosecution when expressing an opinion. The impediment of freedom of speech is a crime. Defamation and slander are not illegal unless under special circumstances if set by Congress. The deletion of wall posts without the permission of the poster is forbidden; however a wall post may be deleted freely if it is spam, a scam, or is not official to the State of Firestone. Furthermore, press agencies have the freedom of press and the unalienable right to report news without fear of government interference or censorship: no legislation can impede on the right to publish. Freedom of Speech will only be restricted by the ROBLOX Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy; although no individual may be prosecuted in a court of law for violating standards set by the ROBLOX Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy. The use of external communications or sites, outside of ROBLOX, as evidence in a court of law for instances of slander, defamation and/or harassment is not valid and such evidence are to be dismissed. Law enforcement agencies and their officers are obligated to yield parts of their right to speech upon a citizen’s request to know their name, callsign, and/or badge number, and they must oblige within 2 minutes; however they are not obligated to do so in a situation deemed simply too intense and pressing for such, with reasoning plausible, and may delay its provision until the intense and pressing situation is resolved. Further, law enforcement is only obligated to comply with requests for name, callsign, and/or badge that are made in English, and are requested while said officer is on duty. Law Enforcement must state their name, callsign, and/or badge number within the global ROBLOX chat in-game. They are not to use /whisper or any other in-game command to otherwise avoid informing the requesting citizen with their credentials.”
SECTION 3: Section I of the Bill of Rights shall now state,
"Citizens shall be free of prosecution when expressing an opinion. The impediment of freedom of speech is a crime. Defamation and slander are not illegal unless under special circumstances if set by Congress. The deletion of wall posts without the permission of the poster is forbidden; however, a wall post may be deleted freely if it is spam, a scam, or is not official to the State of Firestone.
Furthermore, press agencies have the freedom of press and the unalienable right to report news without fear of government interference or censorship: no legislation can impede on the right to publish. Freedom of Speech will only be restricted by the ROBLOX Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy; although no individual may be prosecuted in a court of law for violating standards set by the ROBLOX Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy. The use of external communications or sites, outside of ROBLOX, as evidence in a court of law for instances of slander, defamation and/or harassment is not valid and such evidence are to be dismissed.
Law enforcement agencies and their officers are obligated to yield parts of their right to speech upon a citizen’s request to know their name, callsign, and/or badge number, and they must oblige within 2 minutes; however, they may delay the compliance of this request if:
a) complying with the request would be putting the officer in harm.
b) complying with the request would hinder the officer from performing his law enforcement duties to the standard established by the department.
After the situation that warrants a delay in the compliance of the request is over, the said officer shall have 2 minutes to fulfill the request.
Law Enforcement is not obligated to comply with the request if:
a) The situation that warrants a delay in the compliance of the request is still going on 5 minutes after the first request, in which the citizen would have to make the request again if they wish to know the said officer’s name, callsign, and/or badge number.
b) The citizen is repeatedly requesting their name, callsign, and/or badge if the said officer has fulfilled the request on the first request.
c) The said officer is unable to understand and/or see the request, for example, the request is made in another language, or the request is made in team/whisper chat which would result in the officer being unable to see the request.
d) The citizen making the request is clearly trying to harass the said officer.
e) The request is made on Discord.
f) The citizen making the request is interfering with the law enforcement officer’s duties.
g) The said officer is temporarily off duty/idle on duty (ie. AFK while on a LEO team) when the request is made.
h) The said officer’s name is showing.
Law Enforcement is only obligated to give the callsign/badge of the team they are currently on. Further, law enforcement is only obligated to fulfill the request while they are on duty. Law Enforcement must state their name, callsign, and/or badge number within either the global ROBLOX chat in-game, or through Discord direct messaging. Law Enforcement is not obligated to provide their name in badge through public ROBLOX chat, they may privately comply with the request through whisper chat or Discord direct messaging."
SECTION 4: This legislation shall go into effect immediately after completing the constitutional procedure required.
Respectfully submitted to the Congress of Firestone,
Chief Sponsor:
Representative ElloNT
Co-Sponsor(s):
Representative FIoatmanjason