What we’re monitoring: Gun Safety
Maine’s watchdog agency spent years investigating four child deaths. Here are the takeaways.
OPEGA presented its final report to the legislature last week. Lawmakers wanted to know: What could the child welfare office have done differently?
‘All emergencies are local until they’re not’: How one Maine town is prepping for its next disaster
Like much of inland Maine, Norridgewock was isolated when rivers surged late last December. Town officials don’t want to be in that position again.
Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody
A Maine Monitor analysis finds the number of weapons restriction orders statewide has jumped from an average of two to 32 per month since the Lewiston shootings.
Public defender’s offices are opening across Maine. The next step: staffing them.
In Bangor, at the epicenter of the state’s indigent defense crisis, the district defender has only been able to fill one of five positions.
The Maine Supreme Court asked large law firms for help. They didn’t.
“I think that the idea that fat cat lawyer law firms can send their trial lawyers into court to defend these criminal cases is not realistic. They’d be unqualified to do it.”
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