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Laurie List’s Legacy: They are called Exculpatory Evidence Schedules now, but InDepthNH.org continues its investigative reporting on the secret list that contains the names of law enforcement officers in New Hampshire who have a history of dishonesty, excessive force or mental instability. Catch up on our reporting here.
Shortly after Gov. Chris Sununu’s signing of House Bill 471 into law on Wednesday, most of the litigants in a public records lawsuit against the state Department of Justice filed a Notice of Voluntary Nonsuit Without Prejudice, effectively withdrawing from the case that sought to bring daylight to the confidential list of dishonest police known as the Laurie List.
A Senate bill related to making public police decertification hearings might be replaced with a House version of the bill that is expected to be amended to include releasing the unredacted “Laurie List” of dishonest police.
Proposed legislation that would require police disciplinary hearings at the Police Standards and Training Council be conducted in public, and a last-minute amendment that would make public the unredacted Laurie List of dishonest police were supported by all who testified at Thursday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism filed an objection Wednesday to the motion to delay proceedings until July 1 in its public records lawsuit seeking release of the unredacted Laurie List of dishonest police officers.
The state Attorney General’s Office, five news outlets and ACLU-NH have jointly asked the court to delay the lawsuit against the state seeking to make public the redacted names on the Laurie List of dishonest police until July 1.
Claremont’s insurance company, Primex, paid out $75,000 to settle the lawsuit brought against two former city police officers by the man who they reportedly assaulted and arrested using faked evidence.
Judges could receive annual implicit bias training and a state pool of funds could be developed for local police body and dashboard cameras under a bill now being considered at the State House.
Two Senate bills with public hearings Tuesday would take different approaches to police misconduct.
A judge on Friday delayed a status conference for 30 days so the news outlets suing Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to make public the Laurie list of dishonest police officers can continue to negotiate a possible settlement.
The state Supreme Court ruled Friday that the so-called Laurie List of dishonest police officers is not confidential, agreeing with Superior Court Judge Charles Temple’s April 2019 order, but don’t expect to see the more than 270 names on it released any time soon.
