Facing a Friday deadline to act on a policing reform bill, Gov. Charlie Baker is hearing from its opponents and supporters, says it includes measures he s excited about, and is using the review period afforded to him in an effort to scrutinize the lengthy, multi-faceted bill. We re going to take our time and make sure we get it right, but there s a bunch of stuff in there that we re pretty excited about, Baker said during an interview that aired Sunday on WCVB s On the Record program.
The bill (S 2963) includes a version of the police certification plan Baker filed in June and State Police reforms that he said match his January plan virtually word for word. It also contains a slew of other changes that were not part of Baker s legislative proposals â the 129-page bill includes 123 sections and the bill summary alone runs for nine pages.