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The fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero requires a credible investigation, public accountability, and concrete measures to prevent similar incidents. These demands focus on actions that local, state, and federal officials have the authority to implement.

Local Policy Demands

Local policy has a direct impact on everyday life. Local policy demands must ensure the transparent administration of justice and improve access to local services.

1. Preserve evidence and document local involvement

Records should be released when legally permissible. When a record is withheld, the agency should identify the applicable legal exemption and provide a redacted version whenever possible. Every municipal agency possessing information related to the shooting must:

Preserve dispatch records, video, photographs, communications, witness statements, and other relevant material.
Provide that material promptly to the Maine Attorney General.
Identify which municipal personnel, vehicles, facilities, databases, or other resources participated in or supported the federal operation.
Publish an after-action summary of the municipality’s involvement once doing so will no longer compromise the investigation.

2. Adopt comprehensive municipal protections

Public Law 2025, Chapter 517 establishes a statewide minimum for law-enforcement agencies beginning July 29, 2026. Municipalities should not treat state compliance as the endpoint; they should adopt local ordinances extending comparable protections across the entire municipal government. Each municipality should:

Apply the protections to all municipal employees, departments, contractors, facilities, equipment, funds, and nonpublic data.
Prohibit voluntary assistance with federal civil immigration enforcement except when required by law or supported by appropriate judicial authority.
Adopt written procedures and provide recurring staff training.
Designate an official responsible for implementation and compliance.
Document and publicly report federal immigration-enforcement requests and municipal responses without disclosing personal information.
Review the ordinance periodically and strengthen it when state or federal policy changes create new risks.

3. Report federal immigration-enforcement requests

Municipalities should extend comparable protections, within their authority, to municipal offices, shelters, health programs, libraries, and other local services. Municipalities should publish annual, non-personally identifying reports describing:

The number and type of requests received from ICE or other immigration authorities.
The municipal agency that received each type of request.
Whether assistance was provided or denied.
The personnel, equipment, facilities, or funds used.
The legal authority relied upon when assistance was provided.

State Policy Demands

While the State of Maine does not control immigration or enforcement policy, State policymakers play an important role upholding the rule of law, protecting local resources from use in federal immigration work, and funding state-based programs to help immigrants resettle successfully in Maine.

1. Complete a credible investigation with outside expertise

Maine law gives the Attorney General exclusive control over criminal investigations of law-enforcement uses of deadly force. The AG investigation is therefore independent of ICE, but it is not independent of Maine’s established deadly-force review system. To strengthen the current investigation’s credibility, the Attorney General should:

Retain an outside use-of-force expert and an independent forensic-reconstruction expert with no connection to ICE or the participating Maine agencies.
Publish the investigation’s scope, methodology, and anticipated timetable.
Provide Guerrero’s family with a designated liaison and regular updates.
Examine the officer’s location, line of fire, decision-making, training, personnel history, supervision, and compliance with vehicle-related use-of-force rules.
Obtain all federal body-camera footage, operational plans, communications, personnel records, and after-action materials.
Release video and other evidence on a rolling basis when disclosure will not compromise the investigation, using redaction rather than blanket withholding.
Issue a detailed written report explaining the factual findings and legal analysis.
Refer or pursue criminal charges only if supported by the evidence and applicable law.

Reporting has consistently found that the AG’s office has not deemed a police shooting legally unjustified since it assumed this responsibility in 1990. That record does not prove that the current investigation will be improper, but it creates a legitimate confidence problem that outside expertise and greater transparency can help address.

2. Strengthen independent deadly-force review

The existing panel acts only after the AG investigation and cannot conduct a new review of the AG’s legal determination. After the AG completes its investigation, Maine’s Deadly Force Review Panel should promptly review the incident and publish its findings. For future cases, the Legislature should amend Maine law to:

Allow the panel to evaluate the legal justification for deadly force, rather than restricting it to practices, training, and policy.
Ensure that a majority of voting members are independent of active law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies.
Require outside use-of-force and civil-rights expertise.
Require agencies to respond publicly to panel recommendations.
Establish enforceable deadlines for final reports and evidence disclosure.
Require independent review whenever law-enforcement force causes death or serious bodily injury.

3. Fully implement and expand protections for local resources

The state should publish an annual, aggregate report on federal immigration-enforcement requests and governmental responses. Maine should implement Public Law 2025, Chapter 517 through statewide guidance, standardized policies, training, records retention, and compliance monitoring. The law takes effect July 29, 2026. The Legislature should then expand its protections beyond law-enforcement agencies. Except when federal law requires otherwise, state and local agencies should not use personnel, facilities, equipment, nonpublic data, or public funds for federal civil immigration enforcement without appropriate judicial authority. The expansion should cover:

Jails and prisons.
Shelters and service providers.
Courts and municipal offices.
Benefits, licensing, and public-data systems.
State contractors operating public programs.

4. Fund community-based rapid response

Grants should have defined eligible uses, competitive selection, financial reporting, and performance measures. The Legislature should establish a recurring—not bond-funded—grant program administered by the Maine Office of New Americans. That office already has statutory authority to partner with municipalities, educational institutions, and community organizations and to support access to legal services.

Eligible activities should include:

LighthouseME: Immigrant Defense Hub, including Hotline operations and referral system
Know-your-rights education.
Legal-observer and incident-documentation training.
Interpretation and multilingual public information.
Emergency transportation and family coordination.
Regional resource navigation.
Referral to qualified immigration legal services.

Federal policy demands

1. Conduct a separate federal civil-rights investigation

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and FBI should determine whether the shooting involved excessive force, deprivation of constitutional rights, obstruction, false statements, or other federal offenses. Federal civil-rights law applies to federal officers acting under color of law. The federal investigation should be separate from ICE’s internal review and should:

Cooperate fully with the Maine Attorney General.
Preserve and produce all evidence.
Interview witnesses independently.
Examine the officer’s hiring, suitability review, training, supervision, and prior conduct.
Publish findings to the extent permitted by law.
Refer charges where supported by admissible evidence.

2. Establish enforceable ICE use-of-force standards

ICE already has a body-camera directive; the policy need is universal deployment, enforceable activation rules, auditing, preservation, and appropriate disclosure. Congress should condition ICE enforcement funding on:

Universal body-camera use during public-facing enforcement operations.
Timely preservation and review of recordings.
Timely publication of data
Clear vehicle agency markings and clear officer identification.
Narrow, documented exceptions to masking and identification requirements.
Strict limitations on firing at or from moving vehicles.
Recurring de-escalation and use-of-force training.
Comprehensive pre-employment background investigations.
Recurring suitability reviews for armed personnel.
Independent investigation of deaths, serious injuries, and firearm discharges.
Documented supervisory review of every other use of force.
Mandatory discipline and decertification referrals for sustained violations.
Penalize or terminate contracts for repeated violations.
Protection against retaliation for lawful observation, recording, or reporting.

3. Fund a functional immigration system

Congress has already provided DHS and ICE with an extraordinary multiyear enforcement windfall. Those funds cannot remain a blank check for expanded arrests, surveillance, detention, and armed enforcement operations. Congress should rescind, transfer, or reprogram unobligated enforcement and detention funds already appropriated and redirect them toward:

Immigration judges and court personnel.
Asylum and refugee officers.
Interpreters and language access.
USCIS adjudicators and support personnel.
Legal-orientation and access-to-counsel programs.
Expand community-based case-management services for individuals who do not present a public-safety risk.
Refugee reception and integration.
Workforce, language-learning, and civic-navigation grants.

4. Restore functional humanitarian pathways

The federal government should:

Restore stable refugee-resettlement capacity.
Preserve Temporary Protected Status when country conditions warrant it.
Remove unnecessary asylum fees and procedural barriers.
Increase asylum adjudication capacity.
Establish timely, accessible lawful pathways responding to humanitarian, family, and workforce needs.
Base humanitarian decisions on statute, evidence, and documented country conditions.
Provide sufficient language access and understandable application procedures.

Biddeford Shooting Policy Change Strategies

Local Policy Change Strategies

Extraordinary trust requires extraordinary professionalism. We entrust city elected officials and law enforcement with our safety and expect transparency, accountability, and professionalism in return. Our Local policy strategy pushes local leaders to ensure the administration of justice and protect local resources from use in Federal immigration work.

Pressure Power Holders

Biddeford Town Council –
- Biddeford Residents send 100 unique emails requesting one-on-one constituent meetings with Biddeford Town Councilors to share personal experience and demand (1) preserve evidence and publish an “after-action summary” and (2) propose comprehensive municipal protections to the City Council.
Police Chief –
- Biddeford Residents send 100 unique emails requesting one-on-one constituent meetings with the Police Chief, requesting the Police Department assist the Town Council in putting together an (1) preserve evidence and publish an “after-action summary” and (2) proposing comprehensive municipal protections.
York County Commission –
- York County Residents send 100 unique emails requesting one-on-one constituent meetings with York County Commissioners to share personal experience and demand (2) adopt comprehensive county protections.

State Policy Change Strategies

Immigration policy is a federal matter; however, the state holds the power to regulate how enforcement plays out in our state and the protections of its residents. Our collective work ensures that Maine remains a place where our laws, policies, and institutions protect every person’s dignity and opportunity to thrive; where every resident, regardless of origin, can thrive, contribute, and belong.

Pressure Power Holders

Maine Legislature (State House Representatives and Senators)
- Maine Residents send 1,000 unique emails to their State Senator and/or State House Representative requesting a one-on-one constituent meeting to share their personal experience related to immigration/ ICE and demand: An amendment to Maine law to strengthen an independent deadly-force review panel, fully implement and expand protections for local resources, and fund community-based rapid response.
- Maine Residents send 1,000 unique calls to their State Senator and/or State House Representative:
  - expressing concern that the AG’s office has not deemed a police shooting legally unjustified since it assumed this responsibility in 1990, AND
  - reminding them that when the AG is up for election, the legislature should ask questions regarding transparency and accountability of its investigations into deadly use of force situations to ensure the AG – elect reflects the needs of the people.
Maine State Attorney General –
- Maine Residents share and sign on to ActionNetwork letter demanding a full and transparent investigation.

Federal Policy Change Strategies

Everyone in Maine deserves the freedom to live in safety and dignity; to work, learn, and care for their families without fear. With ICE being a federal agency, Maine’s congressional delegation can pursue oversight, legislation, and funding conditions that make transparency, accountability, and public-safety protections enforceable.

What Maine’s Congressional Delegation Has Already Done

All four members asked the DHS Office of Inspector General for a comprehensive, transparent, and expedited investigation, including review of the sequence of events, use-of-force protocols, recordings, evidence preservation, and cooperation with Maine authorities.
Senators Angus King and Susan Collins also asked the Department of Justice and FBI to cooperate with state and local law enforcement
Senator King led a Senate letter asking DHS to deploy body-worn cameras, strengthen officer identification, review enforcement and traffic-stop protocols, and work with Congress to codify reforms.
Senator Collins called for a halt to non-urgent vehicle stops and highlighted enacted funding for body-worn cameras, DHS Inspector General oversight, and de-escalation training.
Representative Pingree sent detailed follow-up questions about the operation, available recordings, officer vetting, and training, and requested a written response and briefing from DHS.
Representative Golden supported an independent investigation and called on DHS to prioritize body-camera deployment.

Pressure Power Holders

Contact both U.S. Senators and your U.S. Representative. Biddeford and York County residents are in Maine’s 1st District and should contact Representative Pingree. Maine 2nd District residents should contact Representative Golden. Use the House lookup tool if you are unsure. Maine’s Senators represent the state as a whole. When contacting federal offices, identify yourself as a constituent. Include your town and ZIP code, explain why this issue matters to you, make one to three specific asks, and request a written response.

Maine Residents make 1,000 phone calls or emails to our congressional delegation to thank them for action already taken, then ask for these next steps:

Codify ICE safeguards. Require activated body-worn cameras during enforcement; clearly visible ICE identification; de-escalation and use-of-force standards; restrictions on dangerous vehicle stops and pursuits; consistent evidence-preservation rules; independent review; and public reporting after deadly force.
Use the power of the purse. Condition DHS and ICE funding on compliance with safeguards, training, oversight, and reporting. Do not expand enforcement funding without enforceable accountability and due-process protections.
Fund a functional immigration system. Increase capacity for timely and fair adjudication at USCIS and the immigration courts, improve notice and access to counsel, and reduce backlogs rather than relying on enforcement alone.
Restore functional humanitarian pathways. Support legislation and funding that protect access to asylum, refugee resettlement, family reunification, humanitarian parole, and Temporary Protected Status when conditions warrant.

Maine Congressional Delegation Contact Information

Official	Who should contact	Call	Online
Sen. Angus King	All Maine residents	Biddeford: (207) 352-5216 Washington: (202) 224-5344	Email \| Request a meeting
Sen. Susan Collins	All Maine residents	Biddeford: (207) 283-1101 Washington: (202) 224-2523	Email \| Request a meeting
Rep. Chellie Pingree	ME-01, including Biddeford and York County	Portland: (207) 774-5019 Washington: (202) 225-6116	Email \| Request a meeting
Rep. Jared Golden	ME-02 residents	Lewiston: (207) 241-6767 Washington: (202) 225-6306	Email \| Request a meeting