Bill would reform Spain's citizen security law with more safeguards

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1. The bill would rename the law and give it a more rights-based approach: security should serve so that rights and freedoms can be freely exercised, and any restriction must be legal and proportionate.
2. It would improve safeguards in police identifications and searches: identification must be based on reasonable suspicion, without discrimination based on language or gender, and transfers to police stations would be limited to 2 hours, extendable only with justified reasons up to 6. It would also allow entering a home during disasters to rescue animals.
3. It would strengthen the right of assembly and demonstration: lack of prior notice alone would not be enough to stop a demonstration, police dissolution would become a last resort with prior warning, and organizers would be exempt from liability if they meet the requirements.
4. It would reform the sanctions system: several offenses would be removed (such as demonstrations in front of the Congress or the Senate), drug possession would drop from serious to minor, photographing police operations would no longer be punishable, and fines would be reduced based on income (up to 50% for low incomes).
5. It would lower fine amounts: minor offenses would carry fines of €100 to €500 and serious ones €501 to €25,000, and sanctions could be suspended through educational or restorative activities.
6. It would add new provisions: mediation training for police, annual transparency statistics, protocols on the use of force and riot gear with a gradual replacement of rubber bullets, and a review of the special regime for Ceuta and Melilla within 6 months.

Who it affects

• The general public: More limits and controls on police identifications, searches and sanctions.
• Organizers and participants in demonstrations: More protection of the right of assembly and less liability for third-party acts.
• Sanctioned people with low incomes: Fine reductions of between 25% and 50% based on their financial capacity.
• Police and state security forces: New duties of justification, mediation and operating protocols.
• Migrants in Ceuta and Melilla: Review of the special regime of the immigration law within 6 months.

Words worth knowing

Proposición de ley

A bill introduced by parliamentary groups so it can become law. It is not approved yet.

Ley orgánica

Organic law: a type of Spanish law reserved for major matters, such as fundamental rights, requiring special majorities to pass.

Principio de proporcionalidad

Proportionality principle: measures and sanctions must match the seriousness of the act, without going too far.

Infracción leve, grave y muy grave

Categories of administrative offenses ordered from least to most serious, with different fines.

Balas de goma

Rubber bullets: kinetic projectiles used by police in riots; the bill proposes replacing them with less harmful means.

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