The state's new policing accountability board voted Wednesday afternoon to approve the regulations that will guide the recertification process for law enforcement officers starting July 1 after making changes to a section detailing how it will view good moral character and being fit for employment as a law enforcement officer.
Seven members of the Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission voted to approve on an emergency basis the regulations, a different version of which were rejected at a meeting last week, while one commissioner voted against the regulations and one abstained from voting.
The first wave of officers to be recertified under a 2020 law designed to bolster the state's oversight of police officers following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers in Minnesota and Kentucky, respectively, are supposed to be recertified by July 1, 2022, and the POST Commission set a June 15 deadline for all agencies to submit information about those officers. The first group up for recertification includes all law enforcement officers with last names starting with a letter A through H.
The regulations approved Wednesday are meant to guide the recertification process and detail things like the application process, conditional certification while an officer's application is pending, the way the POST Commission will communicate changes of certification status, an officer's appeals options, and more.
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