Office of the Inspector General

The amendment would remove elected officials and their designees from the board.

The Maryland State Board of Ed votes for a statewide in-school masking mandate. Baltimore County prepares to reopen schools amid a county-wide State of Emergency. And in Garrett County, the vaccine clinic at the county fair meets with skepticism.

Baltimore’s Inspector General recommends tightening telework policies after a city worker is discovered holding two jobs. Hogan criticizes other Republican governors for bans of school mask mandates. Plus, a conversation with the head of a hospital in Maryland’s Garrett County, where the vaccination rate is only 38 percent.

Comptroller Bill Henry says he will ask a commission tasked with recommending changes to Baltimore City charter to evaluate the makeup of the Office of the Inspector General oversight board, which currently includes city staffers that have been part of OIG investigations, according to the IG.

A Baltimore City panel met Tuesday morning to discuss a performance evaluation of Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming, whose office investigates complaints of waste, fraud and abuse — including investigations involving panel members, according to the IG.

Baltimore City police officers may collect double pay by filing for overtime during shifts where they are simultaneously using paid leave, such as vacation. This arrangement, which is part of the police department’s memorandum of understanding with the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, was examined in a new report from Baltimore’s Office of the Inspector General.

Despite more than $130 million worth of contracts spread out over a decade that aimed to improve Baltimore City and Baltimore County’s shared, aging water…

An administrative oversight from Baltimore City Comptroller Joan Pratt led to official greenlighting the sale of 15 city-owned lots to her church for $15,…

Every elected leader in the city of Baltimore has been asked by the inspector general to provide a list of the boards and commissions they may serve on,…

Last week Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh introduced multiple charter amendments to the city council for review. Yesterday Pugh withdrew all but one…