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Checked by PolitiFact25 Sep 2020United States Crime and security

Susan Collins, U.S. senator, R-Maine

“Says Sara Gideon "voted to defund" the Freeport police "and gave the money to a nonprofit she helped run.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Gideon voted to consolidate police dispatch services with a neighboring community, saving the town money. Gideon didn’t give town funds to the nonprofit for which she served as a board member.