Samantha Hogan

133 posts

Samantha Hogan focuses on government accountability projects for The Maine Monitor. She joined the newsroom as its first full-time reporter in 2019 with Report for America. Samantha was named the 2021 Maine’s Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association, and spent 2020 reporting on Maine’s court system through the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Her reporting on county jails recording and listening to attorney-client phone calls won the Silver Gavel award from the American Bar Association and was also a semi-finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2023. Samantha previously worked for The Frederick News-Post and interned twice for The Washington Post.

Murder suspect Bobby Nightingale sits at a table during an arraignment session next to attorney Jeff Pickering

Defense lawyers want murder indictments dismissed because Maine State Police heard confidential calls

The lawyers for Bobby Nightingale and Jaquile Coleman seek to have the charges thrown out because of alleged attorney-client privilege violations.

BySamantha Hogan

July 31, 2022

Former Maine Governor Paul LePage stands at a podium with microphones during a press conference.

LePage said lawyers should have made sure they weren’t being recorded by Maine jails

Fraternal Order of Police endorses Paul LePage's 2022 campaign for governor.

BySamantha Hogan

July 25, 2022

A sign for the Aroostook County Jail. The sign reads Aroostook County Jail, established 1889

Lawyers outraged that sheriff’s office listened to recordings of confidential phone calls

Gov. Janet Mills said she will work with the attorney general and Legislature, but did not commit to a specific solution.

BySamantha Hogan

July 24, 2022

A bronze statute of a scales of justice figurine.

Maine judge grants class action status to ACLU suit on public defense system

Justice Michaela Murphy’s ruling means as many as 7,200 plaintiffs could join action against state public defense commission.

BySamantha Hogan

July 18, 2022

Corey Hebert poses for a photo in front of an 18-wheeler.

A Maine jail recorded hundreds of an attorney’s calls. He wants to know why.

Law enforcement officials listened to dozens of those recordings, Aroostook County data show.

BySamantha Hogan

July 9, 2022

exterior of Biddeford District Court

Availability of Maine defense lawyers reaches all-time low

Maine's public defense agency reports only 224 attorneys are accepting assignments to new criminal and child protection cases from courts.

BySamantha Hogan

July 5, 2022

The front and back of a voter confirmation card sent to Maine residents by the state's secretary of state. There are several options on the reply card for residents to check off to denote if their address is correct or if they have moved and need to update their voter registration.

State mailing seeks to confirm voter eligibility

Registered voters who did not vote in the past two federal elections have 20 days to verify address.

BySamantha Hogan

June 22, 2022