Legislative Guidelines for Eyewitness Identification While legislation and administrative regulations cannot weaken constitutional safeguards, they can provide directives or guidelines that complement or go beyond what is constitutionally required. Many states now have adopted statutory measures, typically in the form of nonbinding guidelines, that relate to eyewitness identification procedures (see Norris et al., 2019, pp. 603-605). Although legislative guidelines may be helpful in identifying best practices, violation of the specified procedures in such measures does not alone require that identification testimony be excluded from evidence. The "eyewitness identification procedures" statute enacted in Connecticut, is illustrative. The statute requires police departments to develop guidelines for conducting eyewitness identifications that conform to designated standards, yet it does not mandate suppression of identification testimony if the statutory procedures are violated. The identification procedures outlined in the Connecticut statute are as follows