By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD – Robert Quinn has been renominated to lead New Hampshire’s Department of Safety despite concerns about his leadership including an accusation he illegally directed employees to run an improper background check.
“I don’t understand how Gov. Sununu can renominate this man,” said Andrea Amodeo-Vickery, the attorney for whistleblower Tiffany Foss.
Foss, a former supervisor at the state’s Gun Line, is seeking whistleblower protection from Quinn after she alerted supervisors to the illegal background check.
Quinn has been in the top spot at the Department of Safety since 2019 after he led the New Hampshire State Police.
His time in one of the most powerful positions in state government has seen an exodus of troopers, a degradation of State Police equipment, and scandals including the mishandling of evidence in a double-murder.
Rob Morin, a private investigator and former career police officer, tipped off Sununu and members of the Executive Council last week about the problems with Quinn’s tenure and his leadership team, but Morin’s warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
“It is clear the Quinn, (Col. Nathan) Noyes, (Major Matt) Shapiro et al. experiment has been an abject failure, and the Division is being wildly mismanaged. It is well past time for this regime to meet an unceremonious end. The equation is simple: Either they go, or the Division continues to plummet into failure,” Morin wrote.
Foss filed for whistleblower protection...
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