Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 3-108 - Victims' rights advocate(a)(1) A law enforcement agency shall designate an employee as a victims' rights advocate to act as the contact for the public within the agency on matters related to police misconduct.(2) A victims' rights advocate shall: (i) explain to a complainant: 1. the complaint, investigation, administrative charging committee, and trial board process;2. any decision to terminate an investigation;3. an administrative charging committee's decision of administratively charged, not administratively charged, unfounded, or exonerated; and4. a trial board's decision;(ii) provide a complainant with an opportunity to review a police officer's statement, if any, before completion of an investigation by a law enforcement agency's investigative unit;(iii) notify a complainant of the status of the case at every stage of the process; and(iv) provide a case summary to a complainant within 30 days after final disposition of the case.(b) Each law enforcement agency shall create a database that enables a complainant to enter the complainant's case number to follow the status of the case as it proceeds through: (5) ultimate discipline; andAdded by 2021 Md. Laws, Ch. 59,Sec. 3, eff. 7/1/2022.Repealed by 2021 Md. Laws, Ch. 59,Sec. 2, eff. 7/1/2022.