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A traffic officer patrols a lightly trafficked street in Weehawken, N.J., on Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) The New Jersey Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to give force to new state directives that would identify police officers disciplined for misconduct.
“Attorneys do this, we have an attorney disciplinary process; the medical community and many other professions do this,” Justice Barry Albin said at oral arguments. “Why should law enforcement be exempted from what so many other professions do in terms of disclosing those people who have been disciplined?”
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal adopted the shift in the wake of nationwide protests last summer after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, part of a bid to have more transparency and accountability in law enforcement.
Public access to police discipline records gets hearing in Oregon Legislature
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 22, 2021
Rob Bovett, legal counsel and legislative director of the Association of Oregon Counties, called the bill on a public database too broad, and suggested it might be amended to only require that finalized discipline be made public. LC-
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Two bills considered centerpieces of Oregon’s police reform agenda in the Legislature one to allow public access to police discipline records and the other to restrict arbitrators from overturning police discipline got their first hearings Monday.
House Bill 3145 would direct Oregon’s Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to create a public database that captures complaints against officers, the allegations brought and whether any discipline was issued and what it was. It also would include resignations or firings of officers.
Our favorite op-eds from readers in 2020 | Opinion
Updated Jan 04, 2021;
There were plenty of opinions in 2020. Should the president be impeached? Should we shut down the economy? How do we make Black lives matter? Should we replace a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the twilight of a president’s term? And we published hundreds of views on those issues and others. We’ve picked some of our favorites from a very tumultuous year. Just click the headline to read the entire piece.
“Don’t be afraid of Covid.”
Those are five of the most thoughtless, insensitive and painful words I have ever read in my life. How could you say such a thing when over 200,000 Americans have tragically lost their lives to this devastating and deadly virus? How many people are grieving the loss of a loved one like I am, only to have those five words reopen our wounds that we are still trying to heal from?