I was executive director of the Lewiston Commission. Here’s why I’m voting ‘Yes’ on Question 2.

By Anne Jordan

Anne Jordan, a former Maine public safety commissioner, served as executive director of the Lewiston Commission, an independent body tasked by Gov. Janet Mills to determine the facts leading up to the October 2023 mass shootings in Lewiston.

On Nov. 8, 2023, Gov. Janet Mills sent a letter to the Lewiston Commission with instructions to investigate the facts and report out “the full and unvarnished facts of what happened” on a horrible October evening two weeks prior. A horrific night that left 18 people dead, 13 more wounded by gunfire and an entire state traumatized.

I served as the executive director of the Lewiston Commission. The commission conducted an independent investigation and found the facts — facts that led me to a resounding, inescapable conclusion over the course of nine months, thousands of pages of reports and records and hundreds of hours of videos, testimony and interviews: we need a better law.

This November, we must vote “Yes” on Question 2.

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