Basics Regional Training: Framingham

MASSACHUSETTS COALITION OF POLICE & SANDULLI GRACE, P.C.
2025 BASICS REGIONAL TRAINING SEMINAR

Framingham Elks Lodge
459 Union Avenue, Framingham
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

View the full agenda here.

AGENDA

(9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.)

1.) Registration/Continental Breakfast (9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.)

2.) Welcome by President Scott Hovsepian (9:30 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.)

3.) The Nuts and Bolts of Running Your Union – Tim King, MassCOP In-House Counsel (9:35 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.)

4.) POST: Legal and Practical Considerations (10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.)

5.) COFFEE BREAK (10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)

6.) How to Draft and Process a Contractual Grievance (11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.) with Sandulli Grace attorneys – John Becker, Casey Berkowitz and Laurel Goldstein.

• • Attempts to resolve informally
  • Drafting the grievance
  • Required elements of a grievance
  • Keeping up with deadlines
  • Grievance v. ULP
  • Past practice v. Contract language

7.) Working Lunch: Rule 14: (11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)

• Handling Employee Discipline Issues: (12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.)
  • Contract language
  • Civil Service v. contractual just cause arbitration
  • How to appeal discipline
  • Internal affairs interviews and report writing
  • Criminal charges
  • The Brady List
  • Police reform
  • Legislation update

8.) Interim Bargaining and ULPs (1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.)

• • Interim bargaining, MSBs, and ULPs (such as: BWCs and social media policies)

9.) Q&A Session (2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

Networking and Open Bar (beer and wine) – 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost – $75 per person

(For inquiries regarding financial assistance, please contact Julia at jmp@masscop.org.

Agenda and topics subject to change.

For further information, contact Julia at jmp@masscop.org