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State updates set new deadlines for police-investigation reviews; county board warns of timing strain
Summary
Carroll County's Police Accountability Board briefed members on changes to the Police Accountability Act signed by the governor earlier this year, including new deadlines requiring departments to complete investigations and the ACC to adjudicate complaints within set timeframes beginning Oct. 1.
A PAB member said the state legislature amended the Police Accountability Act earlier this year, and the governor signed changes that take effect Oct. 1 that impose new deadlines on how complaints are handled. "Once you receive a complaint, you have 334 days to investigate it and provide the results of that investigation to the ACC," the member said, adding that "the ACC then has 30 days, after receipt of the investigation to provide to you its findings... The whole process, though, has to be adjudicated within 395 days." The update means departments must accelerate evidence collection and…
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