Report to: The Honorable Michael J. Rodrigues, Chair, Senate Committee on Ways and Means
The Honorable Aaron Michlewitz, Chair, House Committee on Ways and Means
The Honorable Michael D. Hurley, Senate Clerk
The Honorable Steven T. James, House Clerk
From: Jennifer Franco, Counsel
Massachusetts District Attorneys Association
Date: March 9, 2020
Re: FY 2019 Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC)
Case Referrals to the District Attorneys
District DPPC Open Criminal Open in Disposed Disposed
Referrals Pending Charges Prosecution with without
Investigation Filed Conviction Conviction
Berkshire 35 29 12 5 5 4
Bristol 237 16 65 39 15 24
Cape & 68 11 9 3 4 2
Islands
Essex 168 57 16 10 1 5
Hampden 214 271 42 20 12 11
Middlesex 316 153 33 24 4 5
Norfolk 264 137 57 78 8 29
Northwestern 106 49 22 6 7 0
Plymouth 162 218 17 28 3 13
Suffolk 1
Worcester 392 312 156 78 77 62
Total FY 2019 1962 1253 429 291 136 155
To more accurately reflect the volume of activity on all DPPC referrals, and because often these cases
span more than one fiscal year, all information herein is from referrals and cases that remained active as
of June 30, 2019.
1
MDAA shall amend this report should it receive data from Suffolk County.
The types of charges typically filed in these cases include:
• Assault and Battery on Disabled Person
• Indecent Assault and Battery on a Person with Intellectual Disability
• Permit Injury to Disabled Person
• Assault and Battery
• Armed Robbery
• Rape
• Assault and Battery, Serious Bodily Injury
• Unarmed Robbery
• 209A Violation
• Assault to Murder + 60, Armed
• Breaking and Entering at Night to Commit a Felony
• Strangulation
• Attempted Murder
• Assault to Rape
• Kidnapping
• Larceny
• Indecent Exposure
• Uttering False Check
• Witness Intimidation