Sruthi Gopalakrishnan - Concord Monitor

The lawsuit centers on pink “XX” wristbands that the Bow parents wore to a girls’ soccer game in Sept. 2024.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire and New Hampshire Legal Assistance sued the Concord Housing Authority in Merrimack County Superior Court last month alleging they invaded residents’ privacy and violated their constitutional rights by installing devices that track tenants’ activity in their homes.

Jeanne Seto was fatally shot by law enforcement on Oct. 8 in Bath, New Hampshire. Authorities said Seto was armed with a handgun during a confrontation involving a vehicle pursuit.

A second man is challenging New Hampshire’s loitering law, and the ACLU is asking a judge to consolidate it with an earlier, similar case. Robert Gaynor, 42, filed the lawsuit on Oct. 8 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire.

There were 44 domestic violence homicides in New Hampshire from 2022 to 2025. Of those, 22 were killed by a family member and 20 by an intimate partner.

Casella Waste Systems announced its landfill in Bethlehem will close by the end of 2026, which is a year earlier than planned.

Attorneys for both the state and defense agreed to set October 2027 as the start date for Adam Montgomery's retrial in the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery.

Bow police investigators worked with the New Hampshire Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to execute a search warrant of the Yihong Spa as part of a probe into suspected human trafficking and prostitution-related offenses.

In the lawsuit, Robert Clark said he faced repeated threats of prosecution from Concord police during his years of homelessness, as officers enforced the state’s loitering statute against him.

The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit comes nine months after the court heard oral arguments in the case, which centers on pink “XX” wristbands that Bow parents wore during a girls’ soccer game as a symbol of their opposition to transgender athletes participating in girls’ sports.