Reforms Will Bring Greater Transparency and Accountability, in Memory of Eastern Shore Teenager Killed By Police

Speakers highlight the importance of the Child Interrogation Protection Act, amid apparent increasing non-compliance by police.

The decision from the Court in the Bradford case, which spans three decades, leaves another generation of schoolchildren in Baltimore City Public Schools without the equitable funding needed for a quality education

Disability Rights Maryland, the ACLU of Maryland, Children’s Rights, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of minor children in the State’s foster care system who are given one or more psychotropic medications.

Elected and community leaders held a press conference before a court hearing about the dangerous legal effort made by the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 35 (FOP) in Montgomery County to gut Anton’s Law, which would block the public’s hard-earned access to police misconduct records.

The family of Anton Black and the Coalition for Justice for Anton Black disclose extensive new evidence supporting their misconduct charges against the state, former chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Fowler, and other medical examiners, including evidence of wrongdoing in the death investigation.

The review will be of police-involved deaths during tenure of David Fowler, the former Maryland chief medical examiner who testified in court in defense of Derek Chauvin, who was convicted for the murder of George Floyd.

After years of advocacy, the Child Interrogation Protection Act passed in 2022 and will go into effect this Saturday.

The Maryland Alliance for Racial Equity in Education (MAREE) issued the following statement after the governor reversed his decision to cut $125 M of education effort adjustment dollars in Prince George’s County and Baltimore City.