Law enforcement officers who have sex with or indecently assault a person in custody can be charged with rape or indecent assault and battery.
No-knock warrants are restricted. Police officers will have to show that there are no children or people over age 65 in the home targeted, and that announcing themselves would cause life-threatening harm. Those warrants will only be approved by a judge if there’s evidence that it would be life-threatening to the officer or others to announce their presence.
Expands expungement from one criminal or juvenile record to two.
The bill creates eight commissions. Among them: permanent commissions to study the status of African Americans, Latinx people, those with disabilities, and Black men and boys. Other commissions will focus on studying a statewide cadet program, corrections officer training, consolidating police academies and the use of emergency hospitalizations.
It increases transparency. The Department of Public Health will collect and report data on police-involved injuries and deaths, including those at correctional facilities. The bill clarifies that records on police misconduct investigations are subject to the public records law; Many departments shield open investigations from public view. And the POST commission will each year report a plethora of data, including details about officers decertified, those suspended, and how many retrainings were ordered.

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Here's What's In The Police Reform Law Proposed For Massachusetts