City Council Hearing: Committee of the Whole; August 27, 2025

Baltimore City Council Committee of the Whole · August 28, 2025

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Opening remarks: council president frames hearing and presents data

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Council President Zeke Cohen opened the Committee of the Whole hearing and framed the event as oversight of Baltimore Citys crisis-response system; he said "no person in our city should lose their life to a mental health crisis," cited a consent-decree implementation review that recorded 4,270 911 behavioral-health-coded calls since July 2024 and said only 28 were diverted to 988, and proposed creating an Office of Behavioral Health to coordinate services.

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Baltimore City Council Committee of the Whole convened Aug. 27, 2025, to review the city's crisis-response system after three recent police-involved deaths and to press agencies on 911'to'988 diversion, mobile crisis capacity, CAD failures, training and next steps.

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