Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says her home address and other personal information were spread online over her stance against recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Maine.

The Democratic candidate for governor believes the doxing is intended to scare her away from running for public office.

In an interview Monday, Bellows said she began receiving “vicious and nasty” calls to her cellphone on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and her team quickly confirmed her personal details, including her home address, were being spread on social media. That was just days after she announced the state would be pausing the issuance of undercover federal license plates requested by federal border security officials in the days leading up to a surge of immigration enforcement activity in Maine.

Facebook has removed a number of posts containing her personal information, Bellows said, and she thanked Maine State Police for increasing patrols in her neighborhood.

“That made my husband and I feel much safer,” she said.

It is not the first time Bellows has been harassed for standing against President Donald Trump or his policies. In late 2023, days after her decision to bar Trump from the Maine Republican primary ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Bellows said her home was swatted — a false 911 call that prompts a heavy police response to someone’s residence.

That turned out to be part of a broader attack on U.S. officials across the political spectrum for which two European men were charged.

“It’s definitely less scary the second time around because I’ve been through it before,” Bellows said. “It’s tragic that our politics have reached a point where doxing is not out of the ordinary and the price of public service is danger to self and family.”

Her stance on the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, however, remains unchanged.

“I’m not backing down,” she said. “Not on my decision to deny ICE undercover plates and not on my decision to fight back against any unconstitutional attacks on our state by the federal government.”