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The new law allowing police on the Laurie List to argue in Superior Court why they should be removed has already cost one retired Nashua officer more than $1,000 and he still doesn’t know why he was put on the list four years ago, 18 years after he retired.
A Vermont man claims he was never told about the potential credibility issues surrounding former Keene Police Lt. James McLaughlin when he was prosecuted for sex crimes against children more than three decades ago.
Attorney General John Formella has posted the first compliance report for the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule, also known as the Laurie List, showing 38 officers have filed confidential lawsuits in Superior Court arguing to get off the list.
When Alexandra Drake reported that her superior in the New Boston Police Department was sexually harassing her, that he had a “rapability” scale for female drivers he stopped, and that he forced her to add lies to a police report, she was placed on leave, investigated, and then put on the state’s confidential Laurie List for police officers with credibility problems.
Defense attorneys are scouring the partial Laurie List that was made public Wednesday searching for police who may have testified against their clients but failed to disclose discipline for dishonesty in their confidential personnel files.
Several police officers with alleged credibility issues were removed from the public Laurie List Wednesday afternoon after the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office first published the partial list Wednesday morning.
CONCORD – As required by a new law, Attorney General John Formella on Wednesday released the names of 90 current or former law enforcement officers with credibility issues from the secret Laurie List with more expected to be revealed in three months.
An ex-Nashua police officer who retired 18 years ago wants to know how he suddenly landed on the secret Laurie List of untruthful law enforcement officers four years ago but wasn’t told until recently.
Attorney General John Formella wants the lawsuit seeking the unredacted 280 names on the Laurie List of dishonest law enforcement officers dismissed, arguing the matter is no longer in dispute because a new law will make the list public anyway.