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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Baltimore City Solicitor Andre M. Davis reiterated his office had not changed its policy on not paying out punitive damages in police misconduct lawsuits.

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A Baltimore jury on Friday awarded $130,000 to a man whose arm was broken by police when he was forcibly removed from a bus during the unrest following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. Myreq Williams was attempting to ...

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A Baltimore city grand jury has indicted a police officer on charges of tampering with or fabricating evidence and misconduct in office based on body worn camera footage that surfaced last year appearing to show him placing drugs on the ground then ...

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The plaintiffs challenging Baltimore’s policy of including non-disparagement clauses in police misconduct settlements are appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled last month the clauses do not violate free-speech and free-press rights, ...

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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates voted Wednesday to authorize payment of a $147,100 jury award to two men were assaulted and wrongfully arrested by police in 2013. A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury found in favor of the plaintiffs, ...

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Fifteen individuals filed suits against the Baltimore Police Department in federal court Tuesday alleging a variety of civil rights violations including physical assault, excessive force and false arrest. The lawsuits claim the city and police department failed to train and ...

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The lawsuit by a University of Maryland police trainee who was shot in the head during a training session — which was revived by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over the summer — should begin moving forward again after ...

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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging Baltimore city’s practice of including non-disparagement clauses in police misconduct settlement agreements is unconstitutional.

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