Representative Joshua Paul Bryant

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (20:45)

to defend it saying I wasn't reckless you know I just couldn't see it that'd be my concern with

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (20:10)

One thing that I've noticed in our community is divided roadways with trees and sidewalks, and maybe 20 feet of divided highway. would would your bill take the ability away from officer if he sees a vehicle in the in the opposing lane on on say it's it's all first street or it's all Arkansas Street but it's divided by 20 feet with with a tree every 10 feet and the driver's view is obstructed would would that take away the ability for him

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (19:49)

sir? Representative Boyd, I think the overall essence of the bill is very good. I've got one major concern. We struck out the language while demonstrating a reckless disregard for the safety of passengers for the school bus, which obviously takes away, again, the flexibility of the officer to make the determination.

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (16:11)

transportation Okay, so the scenario would be if I have a 20,000-pound vehicle and it's got 12 seats. It's not going to fall into this category, but if I got 16 seats, it would.

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (15:50)

bryant uh one section of your bill raises the the passenger load from 10 to 15. is

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (10:43)

of something that's subjective such as when is it too

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (10:12)

pretty dark and i i probably deserve to get stopped at that point but if it's 10 minutes after sunset that I wouldn't feel like I need to be stopped because I didn't look at my clock and know exactly when I needed to have those headlights on. So I guess this build to me just, it initiates unnecessary traffic stops. And I get safety is paramount. Safety is the goal of your division. But at the same time, to me this puts a burden on drivers and not have the flexibility to have that window

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (10:01)

concern is is there is no ambiguity because the time is now sunset plus 30 minutes now i may not know when sunset is but i know 30 minutes after sunset it's going to be

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (8:37)

traffic stop if that officer feels the need for the stop. Is that a reasonable assumption that It says 30 minutes is too long, but 20 minutes is not. So my

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (8:06)

people i'm gonna say most people if not all people do not know when sunset is or when sunrise is so this would make it incumbent upon them to always know when sunrise is and sunset is with with zero ability for to have the defense of law enforcement hey you can't stop me because it's now 545 because arguably there still might be enough light because you might say there's not and I might say there is. To me, the existing law gives the driver that flexibility from the automatic

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (7:53)

ahead, recognized. So I guess my question is still is it too dark 20 minutes after sunset i mean sunset is is i can't imagine while most

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (6:28)

if you have one headlight out it's an automatic stop just a reason for an officer to initiate to stop. Wouldn't this bill give

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (5:56)

if their what if their vehicle's photo cell is is off um in the sense of you know it's it's not a finely tuned instrument that's certified every every year it's it wears out over time as it as as it does and what if it's always 10 minutes late um wouldn't this bill you know if the officer now knows at 535 sun is down at 536 i'm free to stop vehicles i was always told

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (5:22)

don't know when exact time sunrise is or sunset is. Of course, I understand with the advent of the photo cell and the ability for vehicles to turn it on, but I took that as more of a window for drivers to have not flexibility to not turn them on but have a reason like oh I didn't know it was it was 542 I'm being pulled over so now there's really no flexibility given to the officer I know they have they do have always have flexibility to write that citation or not but doesn't this kind of take that away from the driver to have that flexibility because what

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (5:13)

The only issue I see with this bill is I never took the half hour before or after to mean a set time because most people

Public Transportation (House) — Jan. 28, 2021 (5:08)

the only wording that was changed. Representative Bryant, you recognize, sir. Thank you.

Meeting — Feb. 1, 2021 (35:41)

yes but i don't think you can be too safe of miss carol when it comes to something like that i i it wouldn't hurt to put that on there but you can do what you think but i just feel like that it could just be one person's word against another and if you had it fully documented on the situation why this happened a lie or whatever took place it would

Meeting — Feb. 1, 2021 (34:34)

of legislation, Ms. Carroll, but I do wish that where it speaks about dishonesty and untruthfulness, I wish that we could have a little something added to that that would say that it's been fully documented. I understand your question.

Meeting — Feb. 1, 2021 (33:52)

hours worked, but as training received. So another way to say this would be an enforcement agency could hire as many full-time officers they want and only pay them for 20 hours. But whenever they're hiring part-time officers that have only part-time training, that it's a two-to-one ratio. Yes, sir. We want

Meeting — Feb. 1, 2021 (33:38)

follow up with Representative Beatty. So the language, you know, we don't carry in the state of Arkansas like class one officer, class two officer, class three. It's all full-time, part-time, auxiliary. So this really is identifying not part-time so much as