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BALTIMORE - The Baltimore Police Department has secretly deployed a surveillance system using planes and powerful cameras that can continuously record 30-square-mile sections of the city at once, according to Bloomberg News.
BALTIMORE - As advocates for youth and families in Baltimore City, the Coalition to Reform School Discipline thanks the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its thorough investigation and applauds its recommendations for sweeping reforms in response to overwhelming evidence of decades of constitutiona
Read the full Department of Justice report on the Baltimore Police Department
The following is a statement from David Rocah, Senior Staff Attorney for the ACLU of Maryland:
New ACLU Report Details Excessive, Wrongheaded Mandatory Detention of Immigrants in Maryland
Most of Those Subjected to Mandatory Detention Could Be Safely Released on Bond While Their Cases Progress
The shooting of Korryn Gaines and her young son is a tragedy that, from all that has been reported thus far, could have been avoided on all sides. Put simply, it should be an explicit goal for police in every encounter that all of the people, both the police and the community that they serve and