The ACLU of Maine has filed a Freedom of Access Act request for records related to the arrest of black and Hispanic people in Maine.At a town hall meeting in North Berwick Wednesday night, Gov. Paul LePage said nearly all of out-of-state drug dealers arrested in Maine are either "black and Hispanic."The governor was answering a question from a man in the audience who asked him about his past comments regarding out-of-state drug dealers. LePage said that since those comments, he has been keeping a binder of all the people arrested for dealing drugs."I don't ask them to come to Maine (to) sell their poison, but they come. And I will tell you, that 90 percent-plus of those pictures in my book -- and it's a three-ring binder -- are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Conn., the Bronx and Brooklyn."LePage said he was trying to emphasize that the drugs are coming from places like Connecticut and New York, and that the drug dealers could be "black, white, purple, or orange," but that they are "killing Maine citizens.""Nobody wants to give you the real story, but the fact of the matter is, sir, I am not a racist, and I don't promote it," LePage said to the audience member.LePage's political opponents said the comments were racially-charged."Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers," LePage told WMTW News 8 Thursday.The governor then invited WMTW News 8 and another reporter to the Blaine House."If I am a racist for trying to get black people and Hispanic people and white people and Asian people who come up 95 with heroin that will kill Mainers, then I plead guilty," the governor said.Democrats, including Rep. Drew Gattine, of Westbrook, said the governor's comments do not help in the fight against heroin."It's inconsequential to me what the race is of people coming here, solving these crimes," Gattine said. "I don't why we want to think about it talk about it in those terms."The ACLU of Maine said studies show black and white people use and sell drugs at similar rates."According to the governor, Maine police are nine times more likely to arrest people of color for selling drugs than white people, even though we know white people are just as likely to commit drug offenses. This alarming disparity in arrests raises significant concerns that Maine law enforcement is participating in unconstitutional racial profiling," ACLU of Maine executive director, Alison Beyea, said in a statement.The governor's office said Thursday that the binder containing names of out-of-state dealers was not being shared.WMTW News 8 has filed a records request for a copy of the binder.Get the WMTW App