State Senator who opened police disciplinary records to the public pushes expansion

If a police officer was found to have used deadly force or inflicted serious injuries on the job, until 2019, disciplinary records about that incident had been kept secret. That changed when SB 1421, authored by state Senator Nancy Skinner, went into effect. In 2020, she moved to expand the legislation to also grant access to records about officers who engaged in biased or discriminatory behavior or used excessive or unreasonable force. Skinner talks about the impacts of the original transparency law and how she intends to improve it.

Civic · Mel Baker, Laura Wenus, Liana Wilcox