The American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire is appealing a federal court judge’s decision to dismiss its lawsuit seeking to strike down the state’s criminal defamation law as unconstitutional.
The ACLU filed the appeal last week in the U.S. First Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts on behalf of Robert Frese, an Exeter man who was arrested on the charge after criticizing the town’s police chief.
The ACLU is requesting a federal appellate court to remand its lawsuit against the New Hampshire attorney general s office back to New Hampshire District Court. The lawsuit lists current state Attorney General John Formella as the defendant.
New Hampshire Senate votes to make police list public
Modified: 4/29/2021 10:31:52 PM
CONCORD New Hampshire’s secret list of roughly 270 police officers with credibility issues would be made public under a bill passed Thursday by the state Senate.
The so-called “Laurie list” tracks officers whose credibility may be called into question during a trial because of something in their personnel records. Prosecutors are required to turn the information over to defendants before trial, but public access has been limited to heavily redacted versions of the list.
While the attorney general’s office and law enforcement unions traditionally have opposed the list’s release, both back the compromise legislation. Its provisions match a recommendation by the Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency that was established last summer in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) New Hampshire s secret list of roughly 270 police officers with credibility issues would be made public under a bill passed Thursday by the state Senate.
The so-called Laurie list tracks officers whose credibility may be called into question during a trial because of something in their personnel records. Prosecutors are required to turn the information over to defendants before trial, but public access has been limited to heavily redacted versions of the list.
While the attorney general s office and law enforcement unions traditionally have opposed the list s release, both back the compromise legislation. Its provisions match a recommendation by the Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency that was established last summer in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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