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‘Push the envelope’: Unit at center of police-transparency case has history of illegal stops and searches
Mark Ramirez was driving a tractor-trailer on I-95 one Friday in August 2019 when New Hampshire State Police Trooper Timothy Berky pulled him over. Ramirez, a Latino man who owns a Houston-area moving company, was transporting furniture and other... → Read More
N.H. Supreme Court weighs confidentiality of police disciplinary files
The New Hampshire Supreme Court heard arguments in a right-to-know case that could have major implications for police transparency in the state.The case involves one specific public-records request — the ACLU of New Hampshire’s pursuit of materials... → Read More
‘Not a close case’: NH personnel appeals board upholds trooper firing
A state panel on Wednesday upheld the termination of a former New Hampshire state trooper who officials say illegally searched a woman’s phone, misled internal investigators and violated other departmental policies in connection with a 2017... → Read More
Effort to free N.H. man lawyers say falsely confessed to murder
Lawyers for a man found guilty of participating in the 1988 murder of a pregnant Bow woman are working to clear his name and free him from prison after three decades, saying he is innocent and his conviction rested on a false confession.If successful,... → Read More
State to appeal personnel records release of fired state trooper
Lawyers for the state are appealing a ruling that ordered New Hampshire State Police to release records about a former state trooper fired for misconduct, in a case that could have larger implications for police transparency in the state.In a notice... → Read More
States, cities rethink use of police traffic stops as investigatory tool
It’s a common tactic: a police officer gets a hunch about a vehicle, uses a minor traffic violation to pull it over and questions the driver about their travels, checking out suspicions that have nothing to do with traffic safety.In states around the... → Read More
Examining racial bias in police stops
N.H. State Trooper Haden Wilber was stationed on Interstate 95 in Hampton one afternoon in February 2019 when he began following a car he found suspicious – a Toyota Camry with tinted windows and Connecticut plates.“The vehicle had drawn my attention... → Read More
‘Why did I get stopped?’ – State police use minor traffic violations to search for drugs
Michael Vazquez didn’t know why a New Hampshire state trooper was pulling him over one afternoon in August 2018. He’d been driving his BMW on Interstate 93 in Salem, doing the speed limit.Trooper Michael Arteaga told Vazquez he was tailgating another... → Read More
State Police ordered to reveal personnel records of former trooper Haden Wilber
A judge has ordered N.H. State Police to release personnel records about a former state trooper fired for misconduct, holding that the public has a “substantial” interest in knowing more about his actions and how the agency investigated him.The former... → Read More
Fired State Trooper Haden Wilber says he became scapegoat for his department’s aggressive tactics
Fighting to get his job back, a former state trooper fired for misconduct admitted Wednesday to illegally searching civilians’ phones, mishandling physical evidence and writing a deficient arrest report, but adamantly denied lying about it during an... → Read More
NH tried to study bail reform's impact. It never happened.
In 2019, the state of New Hampshire set out to measure the impact of a bail-reform law that took effect a year earlier.It was an important question. Since the law’s passage, supporters and critics have argued over its effects.Police have said too many... → Read More
State argues police personnel files exempt from right to know law in Haden Wilber case
A judge gave a lawyer for the state a hard time Thursday as she tried to argue that the disciplinary records of a state trooper fired for misconduct should remain confidential.If you “look at the trend in the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s cases, your... → Read More
State Police sergeant raised concern about drug case years before trooper's firing
A State Police sergeant expressed concerns about a state trooper’s actions in a drug case in April 2017, years before the trooper was fired and added to a list of officers with credibility issues for his conduct in the same case.The case involved a... → Read More
State Trooper fired for illegal search, false statements in drug arrest, records show
New Hampshire State Police fired the trooper at the center of a controversial 2017 traffic stop after determining he illegally searched the driver’s phone and made multiple false statements during an internal investigation, according to records... → Read More
ACLU sues State Police for records of ex-trooper’s ‘apparent misconduct’
In a new lawsuit, the ACLU of New Hampshire accuses the New Hampshire State Police of wrongly shielding the misconduct records of a former state trooper related to a 2017 vehicle-stop.In that case, a Maine woman, Robyn White, was falsely accused of... → Read More
Do body cameras deter police misconduct? It’s complicated
As calls for police reform have intensified, one popular response has been to equip more officers with body cameras.The idea is that increased monitoring of officers will deter misconduct and make it easier to discover and punish when it does happen.... → Read More