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“We articulated a number of priorities coming into office, and a focus primarily on what we needed to accomplish in the first 90 days in the legislative session,” said Brown in an interview with Capital News Service. His “top priority” was the establishment of “civil rights enforcement authority” in his office, said Brown in an interview with Capital News Service.

Attorney General Anthony Brown was among the winners in the race to get legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly in the session that ended Monday. Despite serving only three months, he was able to shepherd his top two legislative priorities, civil rights enforcement and the authority to prosecute police-involved fatalities through the legislature, and both are expected to become law. 

State Roundup: Bill would end ICE contract renewals, future private detention jails; pandemic relief bill expanded An ice sculpture of the State House st the Red Red Wine bar in Annapolis in January 2017. A lobbying firm paid for the sculpture. MarylandReporter.com file photo BILL WOULD BLOCK NEW ICE DETENTION CENTERS: The General Assembly is considering legislation that would essentially put an end to privately run immigration detention centers in the state. But currently, there do not appea...

Excess COVID cases just latest of major systemic problems in Md. prisons Photo from Division of Correction FY 2019 annual report By Phil Caroom The COVID-pandemic has exposed major systemic problems in Maryland’s prisons that have been ignored for years. Let’s compare the population and COVID impacts on two populations: Area 20.8% With a population half of Central Annapolis, the prison infection rate is roughly three times that of the state’s capitol. And these statistics exclude the huge...