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Board discusses SB 533 changes, 72-hour victim-advocate duty and record-expungement concerns
Summary
Members reviewed an amendment to the Police Accountability Act (Senate Bill 533), which sets new investigation timeframes and takes effect Oct. 1, 2025, and debated whether exonerated or unfounded complaints should remain on officers’ permanent records, noting that any change will require legislative action in Annapolis.
PAB and ACC members reviewed language from a recent amendment to the Police Accountability Act, cited in the meeting as Senate Bill 533, and noted the law changes will take effect Oct. 1, 2025. The amendment sets new timeframes for investigations and ACC jurisdiction: investigators must deliver cases to the ACC within a timeframe described in the amendment (discussed at the meeting as roughly 334 days from intake), the ACC has a 30-day review window with a possible 30-day extension, and the total maximum ACC jurisdictional period was described in the meeting as 395 days.
Members also discussed statutory…
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