Meeting Summary: Call to Order; Executive Session; Approval of the minutes of the Executive Session of February 13, 2025; Approval of Minutes February 13, 2025; Executive Director Report: certification update, update on Constables, administrative update, budget update; Legal update: officer recertification, issues related to officers’ physical fitness & behavioral health, agency certification initiative, discussion of draft standards on the use of force and reporting uses of force, relinquishment of certification, discussion of proposed policy
NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA
Public Meeting #61 March 20, 2025 8:30 a.m. Remote Participation via Zoom Meeting ID: 921 2333 1585
1) Call to Order and Open Session
2) Executive Session in accordance with the following:
• M.G.L. c. 30A, § 21(a)(1), to discuss “the discipline or dismissal of, or complaints or charges brought against, a public officer, employee, . . . or individual”;
• M.G.L. c. 30A, § 21(a)(5), to discuss the investigation of charges of criminal misconduct;
• M.G.L. c. 30A, § 21(a)(7), combined with M.G.L. c. 6E, § 8(c)(2), and to the extent they may be applicable, M.G.L. c. 6, §§ 168 and 178, to discuss the initiation of preliminary inquiries and initial staff review related to the same, and regarding certain criminal offender record information; and
• M.G.L. c. 30A, § 21(a)(7), combined with M.G.L. c. 30A, §§ 22(f) and (g), to discuss and approve the minutes of a prior Executive Session.
a) Reports of Preliminary Inquiry in the following cases:
(1) PI-2024-063
(2) PI-2025-009
(3) PI-2024-051
(4) PI-2024-068
(5) PI-2024-066
(6) PI-2023-04-13-015
(7) PI-2022-12-13-005
(8) PI-2024-064
b) Division of Standards request to enter into voluntary decertification or suspension agreement in the following cases:
i) PI-2024-028
ii) PI-2024-026
iii) PI-2024-019
c) Division of Standards request for approval to conduct Preliminary Inquiries in the following cases:
i) PI-2023-04-13-017
ii) PI-2024-040
iii) PI-2025-010
iv) PI-2025-011
v) PI-2025-012
vi) PI-2025-013
vii) PI-2025-014
viii) PI-2025-015
ix) PI-2025-016
x) PI-2025-017
d) Approval of the minutes of the Executive Session of February 13, 2025
3) Approval of Minutes
a) February 13, 2025
4) Executive Director Report – Enrique A. Zuniga
a) Certification Update
b) Update on Constables
c) Administrative Update
d) Budget Update
5) Legal Update – Randall E. Ravitz, Annie E. Lee, and Elizabeth B. Smith
a) Officer Recertification
i) Issues related to officers’ physical fitness & behavioral health
b) Agency Certification Initiative
i) Discussion of draft standards on the use of force and reporting uses of force
c) Relinquishment of Certification
i) Discussion of proposed policy
6) Matters not anticipated by the Chair at the time of posting
Note that M.G.L. c. 66, § 6A(d) provides that “[a]n electronically produced document submitted to an agency . . . for use in deliberations by a public body shall be provided in an electronic format at the time of submission.”
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