Opinion: Gov. Newsom is wrong to secretively gut California’s much-needed police reform law
When most Californians think about the state’s yearly budgeting process they don’t expect the governor and the Legislature to shape major public policy outside the scope of spending decisions.
In 2021 California closed one of the biggest gaps in police accountability by adopting the Kenneth Ross Jr. Police Decertification Act, also known as SB 2. The premise of SB 2 is simple: an officer fired in one police department for misconduct or abuse of power one day, should not have the ability to walk into a neighboring police department and get a new job as an officer the next day.
It is these transparency provisions that Gov. Newsom is pushing to do away with by exempting POST from disclosing personnel files, and kicking the responsibility of making misconduct records public back to the individual police departments. This is problematic in and of itself when we consider how adversarial local police are to the release of misconduct records.
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