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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.
The two cases were filed in the state Supreme Court by the New Hampshire Union Leader and Seacoast Newspapers after they were denied access to documents involving alleged police misconduct in separate public records cases under the internal personnel practices exemption of RSA 91a, the state’s right-to-know law.
Three years after then-Claremont Police Cpl. Ian Kibbe fatally shot Cody Lafont on his front steps, his estate is suing Kibbe, the city and Police Capt. Brent Wilmot claiming Lafont was the victim of excessive force and discrimination because of a disability.
Strafford man who has been fighting his convictions for more than a decade says the prosecutor withheld evidence that could have negatively impacted the credibility of the police who testified against him.
Judge Temple ruled the unredacted list is a public record in the public records suit filed by the ACLU-NH, the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism and other news outlets in Hillsborough County Superior Court South in Nashua.
The 264 names on the secretive Laurie List, now known as the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule, will likely remain secret for now despite Judge Charles Temple’s ruling last month that the list – including the unredacted names – is a public record.
The stipulation included the first mention that Attorney General Gordon MacDonald would appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court.
The Laurie List now includes 264 redacted names, up from 153 a year ago.
Solicitor General Daniel Will and ACLU-NH legal director Gilles Bissonnette disagree about what Judge Temple’s order actually says.
A.B. also makes no claim that the discipline was unjust or inaccurate or that inclusion on the list was in error.
Mark Burch was sentenced to 12 months at the House of Corrections, all of which is suspended for a period of two years.
