AGâs Office to Triage Police Shooting Investigations
New three-track system aims to reel in a three-year backlog
by Ethan Andrews
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 2:23 PM
Details of the fatal shooting of Jacob McClure of Jefferson by a Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy in December might be made public sooner than normal under a new system the Maine Attorney General’s Office has put in place to manage a backlog of investigations.
In a statement provided to The Free Press, Attorney General Aaron Frey said he inherited the problem, which he blamed on a system of reviewing investigations in chronological order:
“Under this practice, when I took office in January 2019, the first case presented for my consideration involved an incident that occurred on June 7, 2017.”