Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration is trying to exempt itself from sharing information about bad cops. Now the ACLU and a list of other organizations are calling on the governor to reverse that language in his budget before Thursday’s deadline.
The commission that oversees the decertification process, known as POST, said the public can still request information on law enforcement officers at the local level. The organizations who helped create the law said that defeats the entire purpose.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 2 into law in 2021 to strip law enforcement officers found guilty of wrongdoing of their badges.
At the time, California was one of only a few states that didn’t have a decertification process.
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