What we’re monitoring: Gun Safety
Public safety expenses make up largest share of Maine counties’ ARPA budgets
While counties made deep investments in community projects and critical infrastructure, they budgeted more for emergency services, sheriffs’ offices and county jails.
In Franklin County, ARPA funds going toward new emergency communications system
The new software will replace a system that’s more than 30 years old, and include data gathered through specialized aerial photography.
Washington County public safety building set to open in April
The $5.5 million facility, funded with pandemic recovery money, will bring all of the county’s law enforcement offices together in one space.
New federal data shows Maine’s child welfare agency is moving against national trends
“We’re flooding the system,” said one child advocate, arguing that Maine is failing to keep kids safe not because it is investigating too few families but because it is investigating too many.
Maine’s yellow flag law in three charts
Since the Lewiston shootings, agencies have completed 548 weapon restriction orders, for an average of 38 orders per month.
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