Federal judge holds first hearing in lawsuit against secretive police unit

The Maine Attorney General's Office asked the judge to dismiss most claims in a whistleblower lawsuit that says a state trooper was retaliated against for objecting to police surveillance practices. “This would be the case that says, look, if you’re going to take this money and you’re going to do this job to collect this data, you have to abide by the Privacy Act,” attorney Cynthia Dill said. “How much more notice do these people need that they are in fact obligated to comply with the Privacy Act?”

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Law enforcement officials promise greater transparency of controversial Maine Information Analysis Center

"Based on his observation of the MIAC, he believed that this activity was happening and of course the litigation will test the evidence and the legal question to be resolved by a jury or court in my case is whether or not my client was retaliated against for bringing what he reasonably believed was unlawful activity to the attention of his superiors," the former trooper's attorney Cynthia Dill told NEWS CENTER Maine.

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