Maine State Police respond to newspaper allegations of 'secretive' practices
Maine State Police Col. John Cote released a lengthy rebuttal to ‘set the record straight’ a week after the investigative report was published
Author: Hannah Dineen (NEWS CENTER Maine), NEWS CENTER Maine Staff
Published: 8:24 PM EDT April 26, 2021
Updated: 11:14 PM EDT April 26, 2021
AUGUSTA, Maine — One week after the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram and Bangor Daily News published their Pulitzer Center-funded investigation into the Maine State Police’s “secretive” practices, the State Police released a lengthy rebuttal.
The papers’ report alleges officer misdeeds are kept secret, which “defies the intent of the state law that makes discipline records public, according to those who helped craft the statute 30 years ago,” reporter Callie Ferguson, Matt Byrne, and Erin Rhoda wrote.