Feb. 23—Someone inside the New Hampshire Department of Safety leaked material related to a questionable background check requested by Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn, according to recent filings in a whistleblower case.
Information about the leak was contained in a filing by Andrea Amodeo-Vickery, a Manchester lawyer who is seeking whistleblower protection for former Safety Department employee Tiffany Foss.
As first reported by the New Hampshire Sunday News, Foss questioned a criminal background check run at Quinn's behest on someone identified in the recent filing as the son of "a good friend" of his. The man had no gun application pending in New Hampshire, but he had been denied a concealed weapons permit in Massachusetts, where he was a resident, according to the filing.
The filing describes the criminal record obtained through the background search as "illegally procured."
In the Feb. 17 filing, Amodeo-Vickery wrote about leaks in the Department of Safety.
Amodeo-Vickery wrote that "someone inside the DOS had access to the criminal record of (Quinn's) friend's son and mailed it to several retired troopers and others."
A reporter originally contacted Foss last October after receiving an anonymous mailing that mentioned the background check run for Quinn.
In response to a request for an interview with Quinn for this article, Tyler Dumont, the department's communications director, wrote in an email: "The Department is not going to comment on the pending litigation matter...
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