Teams across Maine holding Day of Welcome

AUGUSTA - The Civil Rights Team Project, which is housed in the Office of the Attorney General, is celebrating its 25th anniversary of working to support students and school communities by holding a Day of Welcome on Friday, November 5. On the Day of Welcome, Civil Rights Teams in schools across Maine will engage in a variety of programs, from guest speakers to information flyers to announcements at school assemblies, designed to make students feel safe and welcome in their schools.

AUGUSTA - Maine Attorney General Aaron M. Frey and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows are warning Maine business, non-profit, and government organizations of a scam warning that an entity's trademark is about to expire and requesting a renewal fee.

BREWER - Attorney General Aaron M. Frey participated in Governor Janet Mills's third Opioid Summit today, speaking live from the Bangor Area Recovery Network (BARN) center in Brewer. The attorney generals remarks focused on efforts to prevent overdose deaths, to disrupt the flow of fentanyl into Maine, and to expand access to treatment.

AUGUSTA - Today, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to voting rights in their opinion on Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, consolidated with Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee.

AUGUSTA - Attorney General Aaron M. Frey lauded the passage and signing of a bill to create the Maine Retirement Savings Program. The bill, LD 1622, was sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Eloise Vitelli and will receive initial funding from settlement funds obtained by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG). It will create a private-public partnership to enable Maine workers who do not have retirement savings plans through their employer to contribute to a Roth IRA.

AUGUSTA - Governor Janet T. Mills has nominated Superior Court Justice Valerie Stanfill, of Wayne, as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Attorney General Aaron M. Frey issued the following statement praising the nomination:

Augusta - Attorney General Aaron M. Frey and Securities Administrator Judith Shaw are warning the public of a new phone scam from a caller claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service.

AUGUSTA - This afternoon, jurors found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts against him in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following statement in response to the verdict:

AUGUSTA - Attorney General Aaron Frey announced today that in the year since Maine recorded its first case of COVID-19, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has continued to work with Maine Revenue Services (MRS) to prosecute tax evaders and to ensure that all people pay their fair share of taxes.

From March 12, 2020, to March 8, 2021, the OAG working with MRS resolved 14 criminal prosecutions including:

AUGUSTA - Aaron M. Frey, of Bangor, was elected by a joint convention of the Maine Legislature to a second two-year term as Maine's 58th Attorney General today. At the joint convention, he was nominated by Senator Donna Bailey (D-Saco). Representative Teresa Pierce (D-Falmouth) seconded.

Attorney General Frey released the following statement following the election: