Judge Orders State Police to Provide More Docs to Newspapers

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police should flip over further disciplinary data detailing misconduct by troopers to the state’s two largest newspapers, a decide dominated.

State Police should additionally get hold of and switch over lacking disciplinary data it failed to supply to the Portland Press Herald and Bangor Each day Information below the Maine Freedom of Entry Act.

The newspapers sued Maine State Police for withholding details about misconduct by troopers.

Information of ultimate self-discipline are public document, however state police redacted parts of the ultimate disciplinary selections. Lots of of the 22 disciplinary instances had been so closely redacted that there was no significant description of what led to the self-discipline, the newspapers mentioned.

The decide ordered unredacted paperwork to be launched, though the decide sided with the state police on among the redactions.

The newspapers’ earlier reporting on the disciplinary actions confirmed a secretive course of wherein misconduct data are solely briefly obtainable to the general public earlier than they’re destroyed.

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