New Ohio bill would limit qualified immunity for police officers

Canton House Representative Thomas West is pushing for a new house bill that would allow for police to be sued over some uses of force, which could include up to five percent coming directly out of the officer's pocket, up to a maximum of $25,000 of the settlement. West believes this will ensure more accountability.

"What this legislation does is it holds officers liable without any blanket protection of qualified immunity," West said.

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“If an officer is being reasonable in his actions, and following his training and guidance in the law then they can't be held personally civilly liable for being wrong," Ohio Fraternal Order of Police Vice President Jason Pappas said.

“It'll cause officers to slow down," he said, "It'll cause them not to react. It'll have less of an effect in the community on crime because they won't be proactive and quite frankly, the cost of law enforcement will go up significantly...the wages that an officer has to earn in order to buy insurance premiums."

https://www.wfmj.com/story/43846629/new-ohio-bill-would-limit-qualified-immunity-for-police-officers

***** Doesn’t matter ... this bill will be DOA in Ohio’s Republican state house.