Editor’s note: After publication of this story, the Milo and Greenville police departments adopted a homelessness protocol.
By Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News Staff
At least 16 police departments in Maine are not complying with state law that requires them to adopt rules for how they will divert homeless people away from the criminal justice system, according to a first-of-its-kind review conducted by the Bangor Daily News.
STATE On Wednesday, September 14, at approximately 9:30 a.m., Maine State Police Troopers responded to a crash at mile marker 14 North Bound in Ogunquit. The investigation determined that 38-year-old William Funkhouser of Baker, West Virginia was driving a 2021 Toyota Tacoma northbound on the Turnpike when he fell asleep and swerved his pickup […]