Administrative Charging Commission moves to closed session to discuss complaints against law enforcement officers

The Administrative Charging Commission for Dorchester County voted to adjourn its open meeting and convene in closed session to discuss complaints filed against specific law enforcement officers and to receive legal advice, the commission chair said.

The chair said the items fell "pursuant to Title 3 of the General Provisions Article of the Maryland Annotated Code," citing §3-305(b)(1), (7) and (13), and said the commission had obtained legal advice from the ACC counsel regarding those complaints. The chair said the topics to be discussed concerned complaints filed against named officers (specific names were not read into the public minutes).

A motion to close the open session for this month's meeting was moved and seconded during the meeting and carried; the commission then convened a closed session. Earlier in the meeting, the commission had voted to accept the minutes as distributed.

The action formally moves discussion of individual officer complaints and related legal advice out of the public record for the period of the closed session under the cited Maryland statute. The commission did not announce further public details before adjourning into closed session. The closed session is allowed under the cited provisions as described by the chair.