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type: "Bill"
title: "DIRECTING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COUNCIL TO ESTABLISH AND PUBLISH INTEGRITY REPORTS CONCERNING COMPLAINTS MADE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS IN EACH POLICE AGENCY IN THIS STATE AND TO CREATE AND PUBLISH A LIST OF DECERTIFIED POLICE OFFICERS IN THIS STATE."
description: "This Joint Resolution directs the Criminal Justice Council to establish and by November 2, 2021, publish integrity reports on the number of complaints made against police officers in each police agency in this State for the past 3 years, and at least once a year thereafter, and to create and publish a list of all decertified police officers in this State in the previous 10 years, which shall be updated upon notification of the decertification of any police officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HJR 4"
citation: "Delaware HJR 4 (151)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-06-11"
last_action: "2021-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62d43ed2-91aa-4e0f-9137-55c5c5d9f012"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78898"
source_hash: "61f8a5c91395a1195a3198f04265fbe512ee76037947d0638fc074973c99bf08"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware HJR 4 (151) — DIRECTING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COUNCIL TO ESTABLISH AND PUBLISH INTEGRITY REPORTS CONCERNING COMPLAINTS MADE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS IN EACH POLICE AGENCY IN THIS STATE AND TO CREATE AND PUBLISH A LIST OF DECERTIFIED POLICE OFFICERS IN THIS STATE.
This Joint Resolution directs the Criminal Justice Council to establish and by November 2, 2021, publish integrity reports on the number of complaints made against police officers in each police agency in this State for the past 3 years, and at least once a year thereafter, and to create and publish a list of all decertified police officers in this State in the previous 10 years, which shall be updated upon notification of the decertification of any police officer.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=78898&legislationTypeId=4&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HJR4)
## Votes
- SM — **137** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-11** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-22** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-23** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 7 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2021-08-23** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62d43ed2-91aa-4e0f-9137-55c5c5d9f012`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).