About our speaker:

Ken Barone – Since 2012, Ken has managed the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project (CTRP3) on behalf of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at the University of Connecticut. This project works to implement the state of Connecticut’s Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling law. The Alvin W. Penn law requires law enforcement agencies to collect information on traffic stops and report that information to Central Connecticut State University. Ken is responsible for coordinating data collection and submission from 107 law enforcement agencies. He works with the Connecticut Data Collaborative to make the data available to the public through an online data portal. He has co-authored six statewide reports analyzing municipal and state police data for evidence of discrimination. He has also conducted investigations of significant racial and ethnic disparities identified in 30 municipal police departments throughout Connecticut. Ken is also a certified Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services “Fair and Impartial Police” trainer. He has trained over 800 law enforcement officers since 2014.

Ken’s work extends beyond the state of Connecticut. He also manages the Rhode Island Comprehensive Community-Police Relationship Act. He has co-authored four statewide reports analyzing municipal and state police data for evidence of discrimination in Rhode Island. He has conducted investigations of significant racial and ethnic disparities identified in 12 municipal police departments in Rhode Island. Ken has consulted with California, and Oregon on the implementation of their statewide traffic stop data collection programs. This includes helping states design electronic data collection systems, develop analytical tools for identifying racial disparities in traffic stop data, and implementing training programs to address implicit bias in policing.