The proposal has prompted strong criticism from a coalition of criminal justice and press freedom groups.
The law allows the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to investigate and decertify police officers for misconduct, such as use of excessive force, sexual assault and dishonesty. It requires the commission to make public the records of decertification cases.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
In Tennessee, records made available through the requirement provided a slew of new details on police officers’ actions when they brutally beat Tyre Nichols, a Black man, during a traffic stop earlier this year. Those details, released by the state police certification commission, were not previously made public by the local police department.
“To say, ‘go to the very people who commit the crimes against your community and ask them to reveal themselves to you so that you can hold them accountable,’ I don’t think that’s a fair process,” Torres-Walker said. Carmen-Nicole Cox, director of government affairs for ACLU California Action, said Newsom's proposal should have gone through the traditional legislative process, instead of being put into the budget.
Neither the governor's office nor the commission shared how much money the state could save under the proposal.
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