Baltimore County ACC approves precinct/unit reporting for PAB, rejects rank summary; experience-reporting left unresolved

Christopher Sui, chair of the Baltimore County Administrative Charging Committee, opened the Nov. 7 meeting and led members through roll call and agenda items. The committee voted to request that Internal Affairs include precinct or unit assignment in the quarterly summary provided to the Police Accountability Board (PAB). "So if, for example, we have 50 complaints in a quarter, it would be x number of complaints come from x precinct or special operations," a member explained during the motion.

The committee also considered whether quarterly reports should include the experience level and rank of accused officers. A PAB designee moved that the quarterly reports include officers’ experience in years and, separately, a summary of ranks. Members debated how to define "years of experience" — whether to count only time with the Baltimore County Police Department or total law-enforcement experience including service in other jurisdictions or the military — and whether rank summaries could make high-profile cases or senior officers identifiable. "I worry that that may identify an officer," a member said during discussion of the rank proposal.

Following advice from legal counsel, the committee moved into a closed session to review investigatory files under Maryland Code, Public Safety §3-104H. After returning to open session, the motion to include a summary of accused officers’ ranks in quarterly reports was put to a vote and was recorded as defeated. Internal Affairs reported it would be able to provide only the number of years an accused officer had been with the Baltimore County Police Department; however, the transcript does not record a clear final tally for the subsequent motion to report experience level, and committee members left definitional details to Internal Affairs and counsel before implementation.

A separate motion to publish redacted ACC opinions on the PAB or ACC website failed for lack of a second. The committee adopted a schedule of meetings through April 2026 and received a report on recent trial board results, which included four charges and disciplinary outcomes (a settlement agreement, guilty findings on evidence and documentation counts, and a written reprimand and one day loss of leave in at least one case).

The committee adjourned and set its next meeting for Dec. 5, 2025, at 12 p.m. in Room 118 and by Webex. Members directed staff to work with Internal Affairs to define reporting metrics and return with a practicable method for producing quarterly summaries to the PAB.