The department may use certain nondisciplinary interventions to change a police officer’s behavior, but officers subject to those interventions may not appeal or grieve them, and the department may not place related records in the officer’s personnel or department files.
Sec. 143.1216. CERTAIN NONDISCIPLINARY ACTIONS. (a) The department may use a supervisory intervention procedure or a policy and procedure inquiry to modify a police officer's behavior through: (1) positive encouragement; (2) counseling; (3) job skills training; (4) repeat task performances, classes, or exercises; or (5) reeducation efforts, including a review of: (A) general department orders; (B) standard operating procedures; or (C) lesson plans from a police officer training academy. (b) A supervisory intervention procedure or a policy and procedure inquiry regarding a police officer is not considered a disciplinary action for any purpose. (c) A police officer who is the subject of a supervisory intervention procedure or a policy and procedure inquiry may not file an appeal or grievance regarding the action taken by the department. (d) The department may not include a record of a supervisory intervention procedure or a policy and procedure inquiry regarding a police officer in the police officer's personnel file maintained under Section 143.089 or in the department file maintained under Section 143.089(g). (e) The department may include a record of a supervisory intervention procedure or a policy and procedure inquiry regarding a police officer in a file maintained by the division of the department in which the police officer is employed. The record in the division file may be considered in a periodic performance evaluation of the police officer's performance only if the supervisory intervention procedure or policy and procedure inquiry occurred during the performance period that is the subject of the performance evaluation. (f) The department may maintain an electronic record of supervisory intervention procedures or policy and procedure inquiries that may be used only by the department for tracking and statistical purposes. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 748, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.