City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0121R

• File #: 09-0121R
• Version: 0
• Name: Baltimore City Police Department - Online Transparency - Reporting Systems for Officer Related Shootings and Preliminary Crime Statistics
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/23/2009
• In control: Public Safety and Health Committee
• Final action: 8/10/2009
• Title: Baltimore City Police Department - Online Transparency - Reporting Systems for Officer Related Shootings and Preliminary Crime Statistics FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Police Department to implement online reporting systems to disclose the final internal investigation results of officer-related shootings and monthly preliminary crime statistics, to provide a greater level transparency to the citizens of Baltimore.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Sharon Green Middleton, President Young, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Bill Henry, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger, William H. Cole, IV
• Indexes: Baltimore City Police Department, Police, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/10/2009	0	Public Safety and Health Committee	Recommended Favorably
8/10/2009	0	City Council	Adopted
6/8/2009	0	Public Safety and Health Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
3/26/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/26/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/23/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
3/23/2009	0	City Council	Assigned
3/23/2009	0	Public Safety and Health Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Baltimore City Police Department - Online Transparency - Reporting Systems for Officer Related Shootings and Preliminary Crime Statistics

FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Police Department to implement online reporting systems to disclose the final internal investigation results of officer-related shootings and monthly preliminary crime statistics, to provide a greater level transparency to the citizens of Baltimore.
Body
Recitals

On January 5, 2009, the Baltimore City Police Department rescinded its policy to release the names of police officers involved in justified departmental shootings. In a January 29, 2009 letter to the City Council, Commissioner Bealefeld stated that “the decision as to whether or not to disclose the identity of the officer will be made after the internal investigation of the incident has been completed”. Since that time the Baltimore Police Department has announced that the new policy is under review and may be altered.

As the Baltimore Police Department reviews the policy for disclosing information related to police-involved shootings, serious consideration should be given to a new approach adopted by the Chicago Police Department. Outlined in the March 6, 2009 edition of the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Police Department now releases investigations reports via ...