The Maryland Judiciary will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to consider changes to a rule that wiped police officers’ names from online court records.
Journalists and attorneys were in an uproar last week once the change was noticed and officers’ names disappeared. As WBAL-TV’s Jayne Miller showed on Twitter, dozens of cases that listed the recently convicted Gun Trace Task Force officer Daniel Hersl were no longer searchable online. That’s just one example.
In a letter released today, Judge Alan M. Wilner, the chair of the rules committee, called the decision “a mistake” and said the stricken language that allowed for the removal of officers’ names could be restored.
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