A long-shielded list containing the names of 174 current and former New Hampshire police officers with misconduct on their records that raises questions about their credibility is now public, putting an end to years of secrecy, litigation and legislation.
The list – formally called the exculpatory evidence schedule, but better known as the ‘Laurie List’ – was released in its entirety Tuesday by the New Hampshire Attorney General, after an initial version was made public at the end of last year. The document contains the names of officers, along with a brief description of the conduct that landed them on the list.
While the list’s release represents the fullest airing of police misconduct in the state to date, it is far from completely transparent. Large portions of the version released Tuesday are blacked out, redacting the names of 91 officers who are appealing their status on the list. According to a January report from the Attorney General, there are 265 names included on the Laurie List.
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The document shows that eight current or former New Hampshire state police troopers were cited as having possible credibility issues, while 18 officers from Manchester, the state’s largest municipal police force, were also included.
The date of the incident for numerous officers, as well as the conduct that landed them on the list, is labeled simply as “unknown” in the list. It isn’t clear what efforts the attorney general’s office took to investigate the cases labeled “unknown.”
Several of the officers whose names are now public were involved in high-profile incidents.
“Falsifying records/criminal conduct,” reads the brief entry next to former Claremont officer Ian Kibbe’s name, who served 90 days in jail following a guilty plea in which he admitted to illegally searching a suspect’s room and then lying in a police report.
“Truthfulness” is the only word used in the document to detail the conduct of former Manchester police officer Darren Murphy, who along with former officer Aaron Brown, were accused of allegedly coercing a woman into sex in exchange for dropping charges against her.
At least 12 officers were added to the Laurie List for using excessive force, including Andrew Monaco, a former state trooper who was caught on a helicopter’s camera assaulting a defendant following a car chase.