I was just thinking about how a lot of members question some of the candidates we endorse during the election cycle.
One endorsement we made was Senator Sharon Carson ® from Londonderry. Senator Carson has always been a good friend to law enforcement and has worked very closely on a lot of legislation over the years, most recently “Laurie”. I just wanted to point out that Senator Carson spoke out against Right to ...
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On January 13th, NEPBA President Marty Conway along with Executive Secretary Bryan McMahon and MA Legislative Director Paul Larkham met with Governor Baker in his Statehouse Office.
The meeting, which included the Governor’s Legislative staff, was an opportunity for the NEPBA to present its’ Legislative Agenda for this Session.
This was an hour long, frank and open discussion as each ...
Continue Reading →The committee did not act on the Flagger bill today.
A few ideas presented by Senators Sanborn and Little.
Senator Sanborn wants to bring an amendment that states no law enforcement officer, regardless of vested or not, can use detail pay from utility detail work towards their retirement calculation. This is obviously a BIG problem, to say, he is all over the place
Little wants the bill to state that a community cannot discriminate when there is a need for traffic control. ...
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