Public safetyFinding
Massachusetts should require jail time for anyone convicted of assaulting a police officer.
Under current Massachusetts law, judges can choose sentences other than jail for most assaults on police officers. This would set a mandatory minimum jail sentence for that crime.
Maura Healey
We found no public vote or statement that answers this. It is not counted.
- Verification
- Quote found on the cited page by an independent check.
- Review
- Verified AI research, accepted by the VoteVera editor on Sep 24, 2026.
Accepted sources
A challenge counts in full when its evidence link comes from:
- Maura Healey's verified accounts and sites.
- Official site mass.gov/orgs/governor-maura-healey-and-lt-governor-kim-driscoll (How verified)
- X @massgovernor (How verified)
- Facebook @magovernor (How verified)
- Instagram @massgovernor (How verified)
- TikTok @massgovernor (How verified)
- Threads @massgovernor (How verified)
- Official government sites. congress.gov, senate.gov, house.gov, govinfo.gov, fec.gov, malegislature.gov, mass.gov, sec.state.ma.us, state.ma.us
- Archived snapshots of any of these pages (web.archive.org).
Any other link is still posted, under Unverified evidence. How evidence is checked