As municipalities in Maine and across the country are increasingly relying on Artificial Intelligence for policing, some localities have made progress in removing surveillance cameras, foreshadowing forthcoming legislative fights over state-level restrictions. As of Thursday, bipartisan Maine legislators who launched a petition to ban AI-powered Flock cameras — automated license plate readers that store information […]
Dozens of Democratic legislators sent a letter to the head of U.S. Department of Homeland Security Wednesday reiterating the call for transparency and accountability regarding the July 13 killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. The 25-year-old father and Colombian national was shot in his car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after leaving […]
The state is beginning to mail $300 checks to certain Maine residents. These “affordability payments” were a cornerstone of the latest state budget, which officially takes effect Wednesday. Full-year Maine residents who file a 2025 Maine individual income tax return by October 15, 2026, are eligible for the one-time payments if they have a federal […]
Maine’s indigent defense agency is already projecting a $4 million shortfall for the upcoming year, three months after Maine lawmakers allocated $13 million in one-time emergency funding to help the agency pay contracted private attorneys. The projected shortfall is due to years of chronic underfunding built into the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services budget, […]
As President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics face renewed scrutiny after the fatal shooting of a man in Biddeford, new Maine laws take effect Wednesday that prevent local resources and agencies from being used to support mass deportation efforts. Local police and jails are restricted in how they can work with federal immigration agents, while […]
Maine ended another year with a general fund surplus, allowing the state’s rainy day fund to again reach its statutory cap and helping to fill a transportation funding gap that had halted projects earlier this summer. Gov. Janet Mills’ administration announced Friday that the state concluded the 2026 fiscal year with an excess of more […]
Planned Parenthood’s local political arm endorsed Democratic candidate Hannah Pingree on Wednesday, saying she is the only candidate in the gubernatorial race who would expand abortion rights while arguing her Republican and independent opponents cannot be trusted to protect them. At a press conference announcing the support of the Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund PAC, […]
