Maryland Daily Record Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news
Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts says he'll work to get a pilot program for police body cameras started in the city by the end of the year.
Tagged with: Baltimore maryland police
Read More »Dumb criminal update
FBI director: US at crossroads on race relations, policing
The United States is at a crossroads on matters of race relations and law enforcement, presenting "hard truths" that its citizens and police must confront, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday.
Tagged with: fbi Ferguson law enforcement police
Read More »For police body cameras, big costs loom in storing footage
The rush to outfit police officers with body cameras after last summer's unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, threatens to saddle local governments with steep costs for managing the volumes of footage they must keep for months or even years.
Tagged with: body cameras legal news police
Read More »City to pay $30K to settle unlawful stop suit
Baltimore's spending panel is scheduled to approve a $30,000 settlement with a city man who alleged he was unlawfully stopped in his car and then arrested without cause nearly six years ago.
Tagged with: board of estimates police police brutality Verdicts and Settlements
Read More »Officer: Dog already ‘lifeless’ when throat was slit
Lawyers for a Baltimore police officer charged with slitting a dog's throat say witnesses will testify the Shar-Pei was "lifeless" for approximately five minutes after strangling itself on the dog pole it was attached to, according to a court filing made Friday.
Tagged with: Baltimore dogs police
Read More »Cell phone tracking: It takes an expert
Only an expert in the relevant technology can testify in court regarding how police officers tracked a criminal defendant by cell phone tower routing, Maryland’s top court said Thursday.
Tagged with: cell phone legal news police
Read More »Rawlings-Blake vetoes police body camera bill
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has vetoed a bill to make city police officers wear body cameras.
Tagged with: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake police
Read More »Former Baltimore officer sentenced for running prostitution ring
A former Baltimore police officer has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for allegedly operating a prostitution ring with more than 300 customers.
Tagged with: Baltimore crime maryland police
Read More »Ferguson protests being planned in Baltimore, DC
Protests are being planned in the District of Columbia and Baltimore if a grand jury declines to return an indictment against the Ferguson, Missouri police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown.
Read More »