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N.D. (AP) – A state lawmaker from Bismarck who’s running for governor says he plans to introduce a bill in the 2017 Legislature to better protect confidential drug informants.

Republican Rep. Rick Becker tells The Associated Press he’s working with Tammy Sadek, whose son Andrew was working as an informant when he turned up dead in June 2014.

Andrew Sadek, a 20-year-old student at State College of Science, was working for a regional drug task force. Investigators haven’t determined the circumstances of his death.
 
Tammy Sadek tells the AP she’s also talking with Cummings Democratic Rep. Gail Mooney about legislation. Sadek wants drug task forces banned from using young, low-level offenders.

On the national level, Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen is calling for the Justice Department to investigate the use of confidential informants.