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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmembers Holton, Young
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Government - Criteria for Continued Employment
FOR the purpose of requesting the City Solicitor, the Acting Inspector General, the Director of Public Works, the Director of Human Resources, and the Labor Commissioner to address the City Council on departmental and administrative policy governing the continued employment of persons convicted of criminal offenses or acts of moral turpitude.
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On January 14, 2010, it was reported that a man had been arrested that morning for sexually assaulting a woman near Goucher Boulevard in Towson the night before. The man was charged with a fourth-degree sex offense, impersonating a police officer, and false imprisonment and was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on a $350,000 bond.
The next day the media buzz was that this man was a registered sex offender who has been employed for 10 years as a utility repairman by the City’s Department of Public Works, earning $25,000 a year and $4,508 in overtime in 2008, while serving out the balance of his sentence and a 5-year probation for 7 counts of sexually abusing a minor.
By Saturday, the press reported a confused bureaucracy that did not know if persons convicted of certain crimes can remain in City employ, if persons who are given jail time can us...
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