CALL TO ACTION

Please contact Governor Baker:
ask him to sign the police reform bill 

Governor Baker has four days to decide whether to sign the police reform bill that the Massachusetts House and Senate passed earlier this week.  The House vote was 91-67, which is significantly less than the 107 votes that would be needed to override a veto. 

You can call his office at (617) 725-4005 and/or send him an email 

A very quick and easy way to do this is through the ACLU of Mass Web site with a simple e-mail form provided.

This bill would create a statewide system for certifying and decertifying police officers (including state police), create statewide training standards, prevent problem officers from moving from one jurisdiction to another, ban chokeholds, limit the use of no-knock warrants, rubber bullets, and chemical agents, establish a duty to intervene by officers who witness an abuse of force, ban racial profiling, limit (a little) the use of qualified immunity, set up a commission to examine the state's civil service laws (which greatly limit departments' hiring discretion), etc.  Like every other law, it includes compromises, and no one considers it perfect, but it would be a huge step in the right direction -- if Governor Baker signs it.

Want to learn more?  Read the Boston Globe's editorial

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Please contact Gov. Baker today and urge him to support this bill.