BOSTON — The new state licensing commission for police officers for now can’t ask cops its planned questions about whether they’ve posted anything “that you believe could be perceived as biased” or if they’ve belonged to any organization that has “unlawfully discriminated” against anyone based on race, gender or other factors, a judge has ruled while allowing the rest of the questionnaire.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Jackie Cowin issued the preliminary injunction against those two of the eight questions, writing that they will be “stricken from the questionnaire” that many officers are supposed to fill out by this summer under the certification law.
“Officers who have not yet responded to the questionnaire because they were granted extensions to do so need not answer Question Nos. 6 and 7,” Cowin wrote in conclusion in a copy of the Monday decision obtained by the Boston Herald.
