This bill requires that a law enforcement agency disclose to a prosecuting attorney's office when a law enforcement officer who is a potential witness in a criminal prosecution has engaged in certain specified conduct that calls into question the credibility of the officer as a witness, including, but not limited to, knowingly making untruthful statements of material facts, tampering with evidence, other dishonest acts or admissions of dishonesty, demonstrated patterns of bias against protected classes and facts reflecting an officer's impaired ability to perceive or recall the truth of a matter. Law enforcement agencies must notify the law enforcement officer when disclosing the credibility information to a prosecuting attorney's office. The prosecuting attorney's office must provide notice to the law enforcement officer and the chief law enforcement officer of the reporting law enforcement agency at least 10 calendar days before disclosure of the information to a defendant, except under specific circumstances, and provide the law enforcement officer an opportunity to address a potential disclosure to a defendant before any such disclosure is made. The bill requires a law enforcement agency to adopt written policies and procedures for disclosing credibility information to a prosecuting attorney's office. It requires the prosecuting attorney's office to adopt written policies and procedures for receiving and maintaining credibility records concerning law enforcement officers, disclosing credibility
43 information to a defendant under the Maine Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure, Rule 16,
44 notifying other prosecuting attorney's offices in the State of the credibility information and
45 removing such records if the information is later determined to be inaccurate or false. The bill allows an officer to file a petition in Superior Court to require a prosecuting attorney's office to remove the credibility information from the officer's records of that officer if the credibility information is found to be false or inaccurate.