By Philip Van Slooten An update to Maryland’s hate crimes law, named for slain Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, is one of several…
Despite dissent from Republican members, the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard its first round of police accountability bills at a virtual hearing Tuesday afternoon,…
A government geek who hoped to flip open her laptop and watch the Maryland State Ethics Commission in action on Thursday was in for…
COVID-19 has prompted a reckoning in Maryland. Very few facets of our society are more in need of reform than our state’s broken criminal…
The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee’s Courts & Criminal Justice Workgroup published a report Tuesday with 19 recommendations to help the state’s correctional and judiciary…
With an “onslaught” of eviction filings expected in the coming months, a group of Maryland lawmakers released recommendations Monday on how to avert a…
Del. Jazz M. Lewis (D-Prince George’s) told the House Judiciary Committee at a Tuesday bill hearing that 75% of Maryland inmates were placed in…
The Maryland General Assembly is unlikely to vote on an aid-in-dying measure this year because advocates appear to lack the support needed for passage,…
The two new leaders of state Senate committees convened their first hearings Thursday, pledging to reform and streamline the legislative process. Before their first…
It was simultaneously a homecoming and an introduction for presumed next state Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), as Ferguson addressed a large gathering…