Illinois village. JB Pritzkar is expected to sign new on Tuesday Police officers require a more intensive background check before being hiredA law inspired by the shooting of Sonya Massey.
Massey was shot dead in July 2024 by Gracon, a deputy scene of Sangamon County Sheriff, in July 2024 near Springfield.
Gracon has been removed and Accused of murder first in Massey’s murderAnd questions have been raised as to why he was placed in the first place, concerns were given about his conduct in the previous police jobs.
Gracen Massey shot dead As she was checking a vessel of boiling water in her kitchen, “I reprimand you in the name of Jesus, but the prosecutors said that Gracon asked her to move the pot from the stove, and never made a danger that justified the use of deadly force.
Illinois House and Illinois Senate have passed the Sonya Massey Act, which will require a more comprehensive background check before the police or other law enforcement officers in Illinois. Gov. Pritzker is about to sign the measurement in the law on Tuesday afternoon.
Under the law, law enforcement agencies will not be allowed to offer a final job for police officers without inspecting all their former employment records.
Any person applying for the job of a police officer in Illinois will need to authorize all previous employers, including other law enforcement agencies, to provide full employment records-“to include duty-related physical and psychological fitness-duty exams; work performance records,” and other investigations related to their conduct on any criminal records or any criminal records.
Before Gracan was hired in Sangamon County, Questions about their conduct Other police agencies were well documented. But during the process of hiring those concerns in any way, the Sangamon County Sheriff was never shared with the office.
In his fifth police job, he refused to terminate a high-speed chase and traveled more than 110 mph-Kaval ended after hitting a deer. A department report where Gracon was appointed, also said that he was struggling with the report writing and was aggressive in his search for drugs.
Gracon is Massey’s death is scheduled to go on test in October In Poreia County. Illinois is the Supreme Court Weight the weight of a request from Gracan to be released from jail in front of his murder trial.
