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Bill to end state police data-gathering unit fails decisively in Senate
The House had passed the measure to end funding for the Maine Information and Analysis Center, which was created in the wake of 9/11, but the 29-6 vote in the Senate effectively kills the legislation.
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A bill to abolish a controversial police intelligence agency passed in the Maine House of Representatives on Monday only to fail decisively in the Senate later in the day.
The defeat effectively kills L.D. 1278, which would have eliminated nearly $1 million in funding for the Maine Information and Analysis Center, a division of the Maine State Police, and directed that money elsewhere.
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