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Police Accountability Board tells committee lack of consistent ACC data and written decisions hinders oversight
Summary
The Police Accountability Board's 2025 annual report, presented March 16, 2026, urged clearer protocols for sharing Administrative Charging Committee outcomes with the board, standardized complaint forms across agencies and at least one dedicated research/data analyst to support oversight and trend analysis.
The Police Accountability Board (PAB) presented its 2025 annual report to the Montgomery County Public Safety Committee on March 16, 2026, urging improved information flows from law-enforcement agencies and the Administrative Charging Committee (ACC) to enable the PAB to meet its statutory oversight role under the Maryland Police Accountability Act of 2021.
The board said it continues to encounter gaps that limit its ability to analyze complaint pathways and outcomes. "The purpose of this 2025 report is to provide a clear accessible overview of patterns observed in board complaints," Siobhan Gorman Riley, the board's administrative director, told the committee. The PAB summarized roughly 434…
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