(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
"Peace officer" shall have the meaning ascribed to the term in Section 8-20-010 of this Code.
"Security personnel" means special agents employed by a railroad or public utility to perform police functions, guards of armored car companies, watchmen, security guards or persons regularly employed in a commercial or industrial operation for the protection of persons employed by, or property related to, such commercial or industrial operation, and watchmen while in the performance of the duties of their employment.
(b) No member of the Chicago Police Department, peace officer or security personnel employed or engaged in his or her duties within the corporate boundaries of the City of Chicago shall use actual or perceived race, ethnicity, gender, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, parental status, military discharge status, financial status or lawful source of income as the sole factor in determining the existence of probable cause to stop, question, place in custody or arrest an individual or in constituting a reasonable and articulable suspicion that an offense has been or is being committed so as to justify the detention of an individual or the investigatory stop of a motor vehicle.
(Added Coun. J. 6-6-01, p. 60144, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 1-21-15, p. 102425, § 2)