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Carroll County PAB outlines outreach, baseline survey and goals after technical session
Summary
Members of the Carroll County Police Accountability Board (PAB) summarized a technical-session review and identified three near-term priorities: public outreach to raise awareness of the PAB and the Accountability Act, establishing baseline civilian sentiment about policing, and adopting measurable goals for improving policing.
The Carroll County Police Accountability Board reviewed a technical-session summary from an earlier meeting and identified three priorities: public outreach, a baseline assessment of civilian sentiment, and defining measurable goals for policing improvement.
Board members said the PAB will make the complaint tracker (now called the complaint log) available on request through the County Attorney’s Office rather than publishing the full tracker on the public website. The log is updated monthly after Advisory Complaint Committee (ACC) meetings and will be turned into a narrative for the PAB’s end-of-year report.
Board members noted limited public awareness of the PAB and the Accountability Act. The PAB plans targeted outreach — including PDFs and brochures for events — to explain what constitutes a complaint and when to contact a department’s victim’s rights advocate, and to reduce unnecessary or unfounded formal complaints.
The PAB said it will pursue a separate working session focused on outreach, solicit input from chiefs and agencies before that session, and consider requesting county funds to support outreach activities. The board asked staff to gather cost estimates and examples of outreach used in other counties for use in budget requests to the Carroll County commissioners.
Next steps include another PAB meeting to drill down into outreach plans, development of informational materials, continued maintenance of the complaint log and incorporation of the log’s narrative into the annual report to the commissioners.
