The names of police officers were removed from Maryland’s searchable online court database last week. But over the weekend, names resurfaced on the campaign website of Baltimore City State’s Attorney candidate Thiru Vignarajah.
As the Baltimore Sun first reported, the names of police officers were removed from online records of cases in which they were witnesses from theMaryland Judiciary Case Search site on Thursday. The move originated with a rules committee decision in June as the state judiciary said it was seeking to “protect personal identifying information from potential misuse.” Police in Anne Arundel County acknowledged calling for a change, but only for first names to be removed.
As the Sun noted, the removal comes at a time when the case search feature is being used to track developments in corruption cases of police such as the Gun Trace Task Force case.
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