Cincinnati officials expect to start talking Monday about a new anti-racial profiling ordinance, including an order that police start tracking drivers' skin color.

        Councilman John Cranley, chairman of City Council's law committee, said he'll introduce a modified version of another ordinance shelved since last year. The new one would include the hiring of a statistics and criminology expert to analyze any data officers collect. He did not know Friday how much that might cost.

        The proposed ordinance also would ask less of officers than the previous proposal. If this version passes, officers would have to record the driver's race, age, gender and the location of the stop. The ordinance proposed in November would have required them to write additional narratives about everything from why they made the stop to whether they searched a vehicle and why.

        The Fraternal Order of Police protested the November proposal, saying it would take busy officers too much time. Mr. Cranley agreed, calling it too intrusive.

        “From a racial profiling perspective, it's not so important that the police officer has a reason,” he said. “It's whether the officer pulled the car over because of the driver's race.”

        The city already must defend itself against allegations of police discrimination. The city was sued Wednesday by the Cincinnati Black United Front and the American Civil Liberties Union. The suit accuses officers of disparate treatment, including racial profiling, or pulling over black drivers just because they're black.

        “We're happy the city's finally doing something. But it doesn't affect the lawsuit,” ACLU attorney Scott Greenwood said Friday.

        FOP President Keith Fangman said he had not seen the proposed ordinance.

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