AI-generated child sexual abuse images are being created in Maine. Police can’t investigate.
Across the country, 43 states have outlawed sexual deepfakes, and 28 banned AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
Are you a public housing resident behind on rent? Received an Eviction Notice? Here’s what to know in Maine.
If you’re one of 1.6 million tenants living in public housing nationally, including 6,000 in Maine, here are some available safeguards.
A Maine woman paid her back rent. Her record still says she was evicted.
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted.
The USDA wouldn’t let her give up her house when she couldn’t pay her mortgage. Instead, it crushed her with debt.
The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional debt before the agency moved to take the homes.
Maine public housing tenants face eviction at high rates. A new program to keep renters housed excludes them.
A new eviction prevention program fails to protect some of Maine’s most vulnerable residents from homelessness.