Baker Signs Landmark Massachusetts Policing Reform Law
Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday signed into law legislation that will create a police accountability and oversight system.
Steven Senne / AP
December 31, 2020
As the year and legislative session come to a close, Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday signed into law legislation creating a police accountability and oversight system under which officers need to be certified every three years and can lose their certification for violating to-be-developed policing standards.
As the country reacted to the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers this summer, policing reform was catapulted to the top of Beacon Hill s priority list and lawmakers set out on what would become a complicated, circuitous and, at times, controversial path to address police violence and some of the disproportionate impacts communities of color experience from law enforcement, and to bolster the state s oversight of police officer
NATICK A decision by the Natick Planning Board to withhold a legal opinion from the public related to a controversial real estate development proposal may be a miscalculation, according to a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
Jordana Greenman, a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Real Estate Law Section Council, said the board may have “destroyed” its position to not release the legal opinion supplied by town lawyer Karis North. North provided the opinion on the board s request, and recommended the board not release it to the public, citing attorney-client privilege.
However, the board may have relinquished its ability to keep the opinion from the public after board Chairwoman Terri Evans spoke about some details of the opinion in an open meeting, according to Greenman.
Company news: Four Social Security disability lawyers hired by Olinsky Law Group
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Olinsky Law Group announced four Central New York residents have been newly hired.
Susan Allen has been hired as a Social Security disability appeals federal court attorney. She earned her J.D. from
Suffolk University Law School in Boston. She also holds bachelor of arts degrees in political science and history from Colgate University in Hamilton. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Asian American Bar Association. She previously worked for
Long, Hagan, Huff-Harris, LLC,
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