(4) By January 31 each year, the commission, in
coordination with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and
Delinquency, shall publish on the commission's publicly
accessible Internet website an annual report reviewing the
efficacy of the database on police accountability, community
safety and best practices in human resources within law
enforcement agencies. This report shall include:
(i) The number of separation records added in the
last 12 months.
(ii) The number of separation records containing
allegations in subsection (a).
(iii) The number of hirings despite allegations in
each category in subsection (a).
(c) Subject to disclosure.--The hiring report shall be
subject to disclosure under the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6,
No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law.
(d) Public notice required prior to hiring.--A prospective
employing law enforcement agency, municipality or entity that
hires agents defined under State law as peace officers whose
record of separation includes any of the following reasons or
circumstances for separation shall issue a public notice 14
business days before the prospective employing law enforcement
agency or municipality takes formal action to hire the
prospective officer:
(1) Substantiated allegations, substantiated complaints
or completed or ongoing investigations, whether internal or
external, of the use of excessive force, harassment, theft,
discrimination, sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, domestic
violence, coercion of a false confession, filing a false
report or any finding of dishonesty at any level by an
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