News: Safer Homes Program Questioned

Since Boston police first floated the idea last fall, we've gotten dozens of media inquiries about the proposed "Safe Homes" program. It would ask people in select neighborhoods to "voluntarily" open their doors to police searches for guns.

Boston Channel 5 reporter Rhondella Richardson explores the ongoing controversy in this report. She talks to people like a concerned parent, who says she would support the program because she wants her kids to be safe. Another wonders what would really happen if the police found a gun in their home: "Am I safe, or am I not safe? You gotta think."

Richardson also interviews Carol Rose, Executive Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, and about the civil liberties implications of the controversial program. The ACLU has been raising concerns about "Safe Homes" from the start, and has distributed this fact sheet in English and Spanish. It's about the right to say no to a warrantless search, and the rights that you might give up if you said yes.