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Baltimore County Charging Committee approves minutes, votes to enter closed session to review investigatory files
Summary
At its Jan. 9, 2026 meeting the Baltimore County Charging Committee approved the Dec. 5, 2025 minutes, voted to enter a closed session to review investigatory files under Maryland Code, Public Safety §3-104(h), and adjourned. The closed-session motion passed by recorded voice vote.
The Baltimore County Charging Committee met Jan. 9, 2026, approved the minutes of its Dec. 5, 2025 meeting and voted to enter a closed session to review investigatory files, citing Maryland Code, Public Safety §3-104(h).
A committee member moved to adopt the Dec. 5 minutes and another member seconded; the committee recorded four "Aye" votes and the minutes were approved. Later in the meeting an unidentified member introduced a presentation from the internal affairs division of the police department and moved that the committee go into closed session "to review investigatory files in compliance with Maryland code public safety section 3 dash 1 0 4 h." Another member added that the closed-session discussion would include "investigations pertaining to actual or possible crime," and the motion was seconded. The committee voted in favor and entered closed session.
Speaker 4 announced the open meeting was being recorded and that continued participation constituted consent to be recorded. After returning to open session, members moved to adjourn; the motion carried by voice vote. The committee set its next meeting for Feb. 6, 2026.
The meeting record shows three formal, recorded motions: adoption of the minutes, a motion to enter closed session to review investigatory files under Maryland law, and a motion to adjourn. Vote tallies were recorded orally during the meeting (minutes adoption: four ayes; closed-session motion: ayes recorded; adjournment: ayes recorded). The transcript does not provide a full roll-call list tied to each vote beyond the oral counts given during the meeting.
No substantive debate or public testimony on the investigatory files took place in open session; the stated purpose for the closed session was review of investigatory files and discussion of investigations pertaining to actual or possible crime as authorized by the cited Maryland statute. The committee returned to open session and adjourned with its next meeting scheduled for Feb. 6, 2026.
