NEPBA SEEKS INJUNCTION AGAINST POST COMMISSION IN WORCESTER SUPERIOR COURT

Today, the NEPBA, together with Worcester Police Patrol Officer’s President Dan Gilbert (NEPBA Local 911) filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against the POST Commission.  NEPBA has filed this action on behalf of our thousands of Massachusetts officers, seeking to protect the further erosion of our members’ ever dwindling privacy rights.

We are asking the court to issue an injunction putting a halt to what the NEPBA believes is an unlawful recertification procedure.  The NEPBA’s claims focus on the Commission’s use of a mandatory, written questionnaire, that we believe to be invasive, immaterial, violative of our members’ constitutional and privacy rights and, furthermore, is not authorized by the new police reform law.

NEPBA Executive Director Jerry Flynn and NEPBA President Chris Ryan have been working diligently with other members of the law enforcement community, including the Massachusetts Police Association Executive Director Jim Machado to ensure the POST COMMISSION and its members are put on notice that Massachusetts is NOT Minnesota.

Flynn further noted, “NEPBA President Chris Ryan, who was appointed by Governor Baker as a Commissioner on the “Special Legislative Qualified Immunity Commission” did so with complete transparency and the same integrity this position dictates.”

Attached here is a copy of the NEPBA’s lawsuit.  We will be sharing further information in the coming days, including additional materials filed by our lawyers in support of this important litigation.
Click here to read the entire case.