Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with minority group members and women in police departments.

This bill amends the civil service law to allow municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in police departments. These alternate lists can be used to achieve diversity in police departments. The hiring process will continue until the police department's ethnic, racial, or women composition no longer deviates from the community by twenty-five percent or more. The bill specifies that candidates from alternate lists will be hired based on merit and fitness.

Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with minority group members and women in police departments.

This bill amends the civil service law to allow municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in police departments. These alternate lists can be used to achieve diversity in police departments. The hiring process will continue until the police department's ethnic, racial, or women composition no longer deviates from the community by twenty-five percent or more. The bill specifies that candidates from alternate lists will be hired based on merit and fitness.