The Maryland Senate took a step Tuesday toward passing legislation aimed at increasing public access to completed internal police investigations, as it narrowly defeated a proposal to ensure allegations of police misconducted deemed “unsubstantiated” would remain confidential. Sen. Jill P. ...

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Saying the legislation would help uncover law enforcement’s bad apples, a Baltimore state senator urged her colleagues Thursday to pass legislation that would remove documents relating to police misconduct investigations from the list of “personnel records” automatically exempt from disclosure ...

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State and local agencies are adjusting to reduced in-office staffing and to remote work but are still receiving Maryland Public Information Act requests — which they may not be able to process. PIA Ombudsman Lisa Kershner said her office has ...

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The Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts must disclose a key to identify District Court judges in the public Case Search database, a Baltimore judge ordered Wednesday. Judges’ names are not displayed in District Court cases in the database but ...

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The ACLU of Maryland is seeking to reopen a Maryland Public Information Act case against Salisbury because attorneys say the city has not complied with the court’s August order requiring the production of documents. The original complaint, filed in 2017, was administratively ...

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A Wicomico County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ordered Salisbury to produce documents pertaining to a police excessive force lawsuit settlement.

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A government agency supervisor’s personal notes about an employee may be disclosable to the worker under the Maryland Public Information Act following judicial review, Maryland’s top court ruled Tuesday.

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A Wicomico County judge will allow a Maryland Public Information Act lawsuit to go forward after denying Salisbury's motion to dismiss which claimed the city did not possess the requested records about a 2016 excessive force lawsuit settlement and any records would be privileged.

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Attorneys for the city of Salisbury will argue Thursday for dismissal of an ACLU of Maryland lawsuit alleging violations of the Maryland Public Information Act for withholding documents related to a police settlement.

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Maryland’s top court heard competing slippery-slope arguments Monday as it considered whether a state agency supervisor’s personal notes about an employee must be disclosed to the worker under the Maryland Public Information Act.

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