Baltimore will stop imposing “gag” orders on people who settle lawsuits with the city, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced Monday, but the ACLU of Maryland called the step a “meaningless sham” that “changes nothing.” Young signed an executive order Friday ...

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The day after two Baltimore City Council members introduced a bill to ban “gag orders” in police settlement agreements, the city’s lawyer filed a petition to reverse an appellate opinion that found such orders unconstitutional. Council President Brandon M. Scott and ...

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The Baltimore Police Department cannot impose broad “gag orders” limiting what plaintiffs can say about settlement agreements, a federal appeals court panel ruled Thursday. A three-judge panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled by a 2-1 vote ...

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The Baltimore Police Department’s marine unit wasted more than $30,000 in a botched boat salvage operation in late 2016 and early 2017, the city’s inspector general has concluded. The unit began removing a 32-foot boat from the Inner Harbor near ...

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A Baltimore couple who say they were victims of a robbery orchestrated by a member of the Gun Trace Task Force filed a federal lawsuit against the city last week, joining a growing number of citizens to sue over alleged ...

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A federal judge denied the Baltimore Police Department’s request to hold separate trials in a civil lawsuit against the department and former Gun Trace Task Force officers, finding it would not necessarily save judicial resources and a single trial is unlikely ...

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A Baltimore judge granted summary judgment for two former Gun Trace Task Force officers late Friday, finding they had probable cause to arrest a man for possession of a gun he claims was planted. Judge Wanda Keyes Heard had heard arguments ...

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Potential civil lawsuits against the Baltimore Police Department’s corrupt and disbanded Gun Trace Task Force are piling up, and the city is prepared to spend years litigating whether it should have to pay for any judgments against the imprisoned officers.

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The committee that develops Maryland’s court rules made a change last summer allowing the removal of information about police officers from the Maryland Judiciary Case Search website that is now just coming to light. As of Thursday, the public could no longer ...

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Baltimore City Solicitor Andre M. Davis announced Friday the city will pay the majority of a $40,000 punitive damage award on behalf of a group of police officers but stressed that the decision is “entirely unrelated to the spurious assertions” by ...

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