HARRISBURG — New records obtained by Spotlight PA show Pennsylvania is planning to spend just shy of $1.1 million in public dollars for security upgrades to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s private family home in the Philadelphia suburbs, including $311,000 for a new security system and nearly $290,000 for landscaping and other groundskeeping.
The upgrades, the Shapiro administration has said, were recommended by Pennsylvania State Police after a middle-of-the-night arson attack earlier this year on the state-owned mansion for the governor some 100 miles away in Harrisburg. Shapiro and his family were asleep inside at the time, but no one was injured.
As work to repair the millions of dollars in fire damage at the mansion was ongoing, State Police also began quietly paying for security upgrades to Shapiro’s house in Montgomery County — a fact that was only disclosed by the administration in a letter in late October to a handful of top state lawmakers…