Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap told a legislative committee Friday that he will immediately begin to implement recommendations from a working group that found that the state’s records retention program is in disarray. The Secretary of State’s Office oversees the State Archives, which is responsible for keeping or discarding public records. Dunlap said he plans […]
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Maine legislative oversight panel OKs rail authority audit
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously Friday morning to launch a performance audit of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, which oversees the Amtrak Downeaster train service from Maine to Boston. The investigation was requested by Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, who said his chief concern is transparency within the agency around […]
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Committee seeks fixes after CDC document-shredding probe
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee took two more steps to deal with issues related to document-shredding at the Maine Center for Disease Control. The committee voted unanimously Friday to try to clarify and strengthen rules surrounding grant funds, such as those at the heart of the document-shredding probe. Members plan to introduce a […]
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Legislative committee looks at ways to address CDC document shredding
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee is looking at ways to prevent something like the Maine Center for Disease Control’s document-shredding scandal from happening again. The committee on Wednesday asked its Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, or OPEGA, to draft legislation to implement the recommendations made in 2009 by the Maine Commission […]
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CDC officials in document-shredding probe met previously about document policy
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee has received a summary of claims, inconsistencies and answers from six current and former Maine Center for Disease Control officials at the heart of the committee’s document-shredding probe. The Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability presented the 32-page summary to the Government Oversight Committee on Friday. The summary outlined […]
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Committee will seek more information in document-shredding probe
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee postponed action Friday in its Maine Center for Disease Control document-shredding probe. Members of the Government Oversight Committee decided they needed more information and asked to speak to representatives from the Secretary of State’s Office, the Office of Information Technology and the Maine State Archives at their next meeting in […]
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Oversight panel hears comments, postpones decision on CDC
A former Centers for Disease Control division director told legislators Friday that her bosses ordered her and another worker to shred public documents because their bosses expected someone to ask for those documents. A Department of Health and Human Services representative acknowledged there were “flaws” in the way the CDC distributed millions of dollars to […]