City of Baltimore - File #: 22-0257

• File #: 22-0257
• Version: 0
• Name: Police Department of Baltimore City - Police Districts - Redistricting
• Type: Mayor and City Council Res.
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 8/15/2022
• In control: Baltimore City Council
• Final action: 11/2/2022
• Enactment #: 22-06
• Title: Police Department of Baltimore City - Police Districts - Redistricting For the purpose of establishing new boundaries of the Baltimore Police Department Police Districts; and providing for a special effective date.
• Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
• Indexes: Police Department, Redistricting

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/21/2022	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
10/3/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
9/19/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	3rd Reader, for final passage
9/12/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Held for 1 meeting
9/8/2022	0	Rules and Legislative Oversight	Recommended Favorably	Pass
8/18/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Police Department
8/18/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Dept. of Finance
8/18/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to City Solicitor
8/15/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Assigned
8/15/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Introduced
8/15/2022	0	Rules and Legislative Oversight	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

Introduced by: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Office of the Mayor)


A Resolution Entitled

A Resolution of the Mayor and City Council concerning
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Police Department of Baltimore City - Police Districts - Redistricting
For the purpose of establishing new boundaries of the Baltimore Police Department Police Districts; and providing for a special effective date.
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Recitals

Chapter 74 of the 2019 Laws of Maryland amends Subtitle 16 {“Police Department”} of the Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (“PLL”), being Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, requiring the Police Commissioner (the “Commissioner”) of the Police Department of Baltimore City (the “Department”) to “prepare a [redistricting] plan for the adjustment of the geographic boundaries and composition of each [police] district and the reallocation of the resources and personnel of the Department among the districts” following each decennial census. PLL, § 16-55(b).

The redistricting plan prepared by the Commissioner must utilize:

(i) decennial census population and housing data of the United States Census Bureau;

(ii) district call volume trends;

(iii) district response times; and

(iv) any other information deemed necessary by the Commissioner.

PLL, § 16-55(b)(1).

The Commissioner must present the redistricting plan to the Mayor and City Council “within 1 year from the issuance of the decennial census population and housing ...