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Gov. Chris Sununu’s new Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community, and Transparency will hold an organizational meeting via teleconference on Monday, June 22 at 1 p.m., but it is still unknown exactly who will serve on it or how the two public members will be selected.
In two decisions Friday, the state Supreme Court overturned its own 1993 ruling known as the Fenniman case in what is widely seen as a victory for the public’s right to know about misconduct by public officials that has previously been deemed confidential.
The state Department of Corrections reports that a male resident who was transferred from an out-of-state correctional facility to serve time owed in New Hampshire has tested positive for COVID-19.
The state-run psychiatric hospital, the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord, has three cases of COVID-19 among staff, according to Jake Leon, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services.
One of the residents of the federal halfway house in Manchester who was suddenly sent home Sunday night during a COVID-19 outbreak says he worries he has unknowingly infected as many as eight family members and their contacts.
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The Hillsborough County House of Corrections, also known as Valley Street Jail, reported on Tuesday that one employee has tested positive for COVID-19. No inmates have tested positive.
Saying they are “accelerating our move into the future,” The Telegraph of Nashua is moving online and ending its print publication except for the Sunday edition every week starting Monday, April 27.
The state Department of Corrections’ website showed Friday that 11 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, but so far no inmates have been sickened.
The former state representative who helped organize the first #ReopenNH event in Concord last Saturday said the event was so successful that another one is planned for May 2 from noon to 2 p.m.