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Vice squad commanders in Maryland working for casino
ANNAPOLIS — The captain and lieutenant who oversee the Anne Arundel County Police Department’s gambling investigations have side jobs as security guards for the developer building the casino at...
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Howard County Council passes gender identity law
ELLICOTT CITY — The Howard County Council has adopted a measure prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity and expression. The Council voted in favor of the legislation Monday night. It bars...
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50 graduate from P.G. police academy
UPPER MARLBORO — Fifty recruits are graduating from the Prince George’s County police academy. The graduation ceremony is scheduled for Thursday evening at the Dr. Henry A. Wise High School in Upper...
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ACLU seeks policies ensuring right to video police
The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland says it wants police officers statewide to know citizens have the right to record their actions. The ACLU chapter announced Monday that it is asking law...
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Md. panel on mentally ill gun access releases report
ANNAPOLIS — Gun should be taken away from anyone who is found by a licensed health care provider, educator or police to be a threat, a panel studying firearms access by the mentally ill recommended...
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House votes to extend DNA sampling for arrestees
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland House of Delegates has voted to maintain a much-debated state law that allows police to take DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant. In 2009, the state began requiring...
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Senate votes to keep DNA collection on arrests
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Senate has voted to extend a state law that allows police to take DNA samples from arrestees for certain violent crimes. The Senate voted 39-7 to pass the bill on Thursday,...
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Md. trooper shortage adds patrol burden to Frederick County
FREDERICK — Maryland State Police are asking Frederick County deputies to patrol parts of state routes 85 and 355 due to a trooper shortage there and a reorganization of the state agency. Spokesman...
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ACLU: Police record license plates by the millions
WASHINGTON — You can drive, but you can’t hide. A rapidly growing network of police cameras is capturing, storing and sharing data on license plates, making it possible to stitch together people’s...
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Facebook: Governments demanded data on 38K users
WASHINGTON — Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United...
View Article“Arpaio of Maryland” featured in delegate’s pro-gun video
A pro-conceal carry video produced by a Maryland state Delegate is raising questions about the use of Wicomico County Sheriff’s Department personnel and resources.
View ArticleMd. police to get training about disabled people
Maryland will be the first state to teach all law enforcement officers about people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in training sessions led partly by disabled people, the chairman of...
View ArticleInvestigators question Secret Service assignment
A new government investigation questions a bizarre Secret Service mission that pulled agents from their assignment near the White House and sent them to the rural Maryland home of a headquarters...
View ArticleJOSHUA HUFFMAN v. STATE OF MARYLAND
the State argues that any error by the court in denying the appellant’s request that his references to wanting a lawyer be redacted from the DVD of the police interview was harmless beyond a reasonable...
View ArticleOfficers dig up mountain site for missing Maryland sisters
Armed with what one official described as new information, federal and state authorities searched a site on a Virginia mountain Monday for the remains of two Maryland sisters who disappeared 40 years ago.
View ArticleHoward County: Gender ID played no role in rejection of volunteer for mounted...
A transgender former U.S. Capitol Police officer was not hired to serve on Howard County's horse-mounted patrol she was "overqualified" and not because of her gender, lawyers for the county argued...
View ArticleFBI 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.
View ArticleFrosh updates advice for Md. law enforcement on immigration law
Maryland’s top lawyer on Thursday said state and local law enforcement officers may not be prohibited from sharing information about a detainee’s immigration status with federal officials — but they...
View ArticleACLU: Police record license plates by the millions
WASHINGTON — You can drive, but you can’t hide. A rapidly growing network of police cameras is capturing, storing and sharing data on license plates, making it possible to stitch together people’s...
View ArticleFacebook: Governments demanded data on 38K users
WASHINGTON — Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United...
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