Author: Katie Mettler

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In 2020, Prince George’s police Cpl. Michael Owen Jr. was charged in the fatal shooting of William Green during a traffic stop. Nearly four years later, his trial begins.

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A federal indictment accuses Sheriff Charles Austin Jenkins in Maryland of requesting the machine guns and then funneling them to a private business.

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The FBI also fired during the encounter, a law enforcement document says, and it is unclear whether the self-inflicted wound or law enforcement gunfire killed McGrath.

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Demonte Ward-Blake was injured when a Prince George’s County police officer slammed him to the ground in a 2019 encounter, his family said in a federal civil rights lawsuit.

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A new National Courtwatch Network launches this week as part of the next frontier of criminal justice accountability.

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Laws passed in the 2021 were intended to increase transparency to police department records but implementation has been inconsistent, groups suing for more open access say.

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A federal judge made the comments as he considered requests to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the court’s bond review process and the county’s pretrial release program

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The suit, filed in July, claims the decades-old county ordinance is discriminatory, unconstitutional and not based in science.

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Twin lawsuits in D.C. area jails show just how fleeting the direct impact of civil litigation can be for incarcerated people.