No-knock search warrants and certain expenditures of federal moneys by first class cities. (FE)

This bill creates a statutory provision that provides that right to law enforcement officers and further provides that:

1. No city, village, town, or county may adopt an ordinance or policy that restricts a law enforcement officer's ability to execute an unannounced search warrant.

2. No board of fire and police commissioners may prescribe rules or regulations that restrict a law enforcement officer's ability to execute an unannounced search warrant.

3. No sheriff or chief of a law enforcement agency may adopt a policy that restricts a law enforcement officer's ability to execute an unannounced search warrant.

4. No mayor or common council may issue an order that restricts a law enforcement officer's ability to execute an unannounced search warrant.

The bill also requires a first class city (currently, only the city of Milwaukee) to expend a portion of the moneys it receives under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to fund operations of the city's police department. The portion that must be expended for these purposes is the total amount of ARPA funds received by the city multiplied by the result of dividing the amount that the city expended in 2021 for law enforcement purposes by the total amount expended by the city from its general fund in 2021 for all purposes. The bill also requires that in any year that a first class city receives ARPA funds, the city must expend at least as much from its general fund for the city's police department as it did in 2021.