LEWISTON – Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is one of three panelists who will discuss terrorism, homeland security and civil liberties in a Bates College presentation at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

Part of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships’ Civic Forum series, “Maine in a Transnational World,” the event is open to the public at no charge.

Other panelists will be Shenna Bellows, executive director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, and Warren Bamford, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston field office.

Dunlap became Maine’s secretary of state in 2005. As Maine’s chief motor vehicle official, he was nominated to a national committee, created under the Intelligence Reform Act, to set standards for state driver’s licenses and identification cards. With passage of the Real ID Act, Dunlap has been an active participant in the national discussion of identity security.

Bellows has served as the executive director of the MCLU since March 2005. She returned home to Maine, where she grew up, after spending two years as a national field organizer at the American Civil Liberties Union Legislative Office in Washington, D.C.

In Washington, Bellows was a leader in post-9/11 issues, developing a field program around the Patriot Act, as well as working to defeat several constitutional amendments that would have undermined the criminal justice system, freedom of speech and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

A 22-year veteran of the FBI, Bamford took charge of the Boston field office in 2007. He previously headed the counter terrorism division of the bureau’s Los Angeles office.

While working as a sniper on the bureau’s Hostage Rescue Team, Bamford was deployed to three high-profile operations: the Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho in 1992, the Branch Davidian siege in Texas in 1993 and the Talladega prison riot in Alabama in 1995.