Advocates are speaking out against a new bill that would remove the State Police from under the Attorney General’s oversight.
The bill was introduced in mid-June by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers. It would move the State Police from the attorney general’s Department of Law and Public Safety to a new Department of State Police under the governor’s office.
Advocates argue the State Police must remain under the attorney general, stating in a press release Wednesday that the bill comes “[a]t a time when federal law enforcement and judicial practices have become politically weaponized under an increasingly authoritarian Trump administration.”
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