Dec. 29—A former New Hampshire State Police civilian employee who took issue with a questionable Gun Line background check allegedly ordered by Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn has filed for whistleblower protection.
The lawyer for Tiffany Foss, who transferred out of state police to the Department of Health and Human Services, filed the whistleblower complaint late last week.
"Even though I am at another agency now, I am still fearful of his power and reach," says the complaint, which was filed with the state Department of Labor. Foss asked that she and all Safety Department employees be protected from retaliation.
Efforts to reach Quinn through his spokesman, Tyler Dumont, were unsuccessful.
Last week, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported that Quinn had asked a trooper to run a background check on someone denied a firearms permit in Massachusetts. The check was done for personal reasons, according to internal emails.
The trooper had a clerk who works in Gun Line make the query, and the clerk alerted Foss, his supervisor, after doing so.
Gun Line is operated by the state police and provides instant background checks for handgun purchases in New Hampshire.
Federal law makes it a crime to access the database of criminal records for unnecessary reasons.
Foss left her job at the state police Permits and Licensing Unit on Oct. 22, 2021, three weeks after her clerk ran the inquiry.
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