BOSTON — The Massachusetts state attorney general has reached a $40 million settlement with the hundreds of minority police officers the state has ruled the civil-service promotional exam discriminated against, drawing to a close a long-running case that has wide-ranging repercussions.
Assistant Attorney General Kate Isley of AG Andrea Campbell’s office and labor attorney Harold Lichten signed the agreement on Friday, and a notice will begin to go out to the assorted officers who are part of the class-action suit next week.
“This is a tremendous victory for minority police officers who have been held back,” Shannon Liss-Riordan, a well-known labor attorney who is a law partner with Lichten, told The Boston Herald on Friday. The ruling comes about half a year after a judge said that the way the police sergeants promotional test was run resulted in lower scores for Black and Latino officers.
