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Alison Pray, founder and co-owner of Standard Baking Co. in Portland, taste-tests bagels at the Portland Press Herald. Staff photo by Gregory Rec
The judges were swift and severe.
After getting their first look at the bagels lined up in the center of a conference room table in the Press Herald newsroom, they immediately dismissed the anemic ones on the end because they looked as if they hadn’t spent enough time in an oven. Some judges refused to acknowledge that they even were bagels, labeling them “bread with holes.”
They were “just not even worth talking about,” one judge decreed as others nodded in agreement.
Press Herald sues Maine State Police over concealed discipline records
The newspaper is working to obtain public information on why more than a dozen state troopers were disciplined since 2015.
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The Portland Press Herald filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Maine State Police seeking to pry loose disciplinary records that could shed light on how the agency handles complaints of misconduct and rule-breaking among its ranks.
The Maine State Police redacted key parts of disciplinary records or withheld some records entirely in their response to requests for information regarding officer discipline requested by the newspaper. Final disciplinary measures against public employees are public records in Maine.
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