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Commissioners accept sheriff's 2025 racial-profiling report; judge says data do not show profiling
Summary
Howard County commissioners voted to accept the sheriff's 2025 racial-profiling report; the judge said the breakdown of stops and arrests in the report did not indicate discriminatory profiling based on the county's data, while noting white males are the group most often stopped in local traffic.
The sheriff presented the 2025 racial-profiling report and the court voted to accept it. The judge reviewed the racial breakdown in the report and said the data do not support a finding of profiling toward any group based on the statistics presented: "I think it's, at least from my perspective... it's nowhere close to being able to say that there was any profiling on any group," he said. He added an observation about which demographic is most often stopped in local traffic: "unless you wanna talk about white males. Unfortunately, we're the ones that get pulled over those."
Following the acceptance vote, the meeting moved on to administrative items and future agenda planning. The court signed required signature pages for the report before adjourning.
