Don’t weaken police accountability in California

Governor Newsom’s administration wants to eliminate a crucial provision of Senate Bill 2. According to the proposal, the state’s police certification commission would no longer need to make documents regarding the decertification of abusive or corrupt officers in California available to the public. This provision is a vital component of Senate Bill 2, an important measure to ensure police accountability and transparency. Per POLITICO on 6/13: “Gov. Gavin Newsom hailed a new police misconduct law as a tool to ‘root out racial injustice and fight systemic racism’ less than two years ago. Now, his administration is quietly proposing a change that weakens one of its key provisions. Its proposal, which it has discussed with police-reform advocates, would strip a requirement that the state’s police certification commission release documents to the public about decertification of abusive or corrupt officers in California — an element of Senate Bill 2, a hard-won accountability measure.” I urge you to refrain from allowing this rollback of hard-fought police accountability to occur.