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Support Waiver of Residency Rules for BPD Transfers

Last activity August 6, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

  1. Introduced

    August 3, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

    The council votes to adopt or reject it.

  4. Adopted

The Council considered a resolution to waive the typical residency requirement so officers from other municipalities could transfer to the Boston Police Department. The rules were suspended and the measure did not get adopted on August 5, 2026. The sponsors were Councilors Murphy, FitzGerald, and Flynn.

Affects Boston Police Department officers

Filed by Erin Murphy, John FitzGerald, and Ed Flynn

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Official title

Resolution in support of waiving the residency requirement to allow for transfers from other municipalities to the Boston Police Department. On motion of Councilor Flynn, the rules were suspended; the resolution was not adopted: yeas 3 (FitzGerald, Flynn, Murphy), nays 9 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, Louijeune, Mejia, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).

Timeline

  1. August 5, 2026

    The rules were suspended; the resolution failed to be adopted.

    City Council