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This bill takes significant steps to protect people and to strengthen police accountability in the Commonwealth. While the ACLU and many of our allies still wish to see qualified immunity eliminated, we commend the Senate for taking this critical action and urge the House to do the same.
The ACLU of Massachusetts is calling on the State Senate to restrict qualified immunity, ban dangerous police tactics, and press pause on government use of face surveillance technology.
Across the country, people are demanding a complete shift in policing. The State Senate's bill responds to that call to action.
More than 100 organizations support two Massachusetts bills that would hold police accountable for violence and abuse.
Easthampton now joins six other Massachusetts municipalities—Boston, Springfield, Cambridge, Northampton, Brookline, and Somerville—which passed bans over the past year.
The Boston City Council voted unanimously to pass a ban on city government use of face surveillance technology, becoming the second largest city in the world to do so.