by Mark Reutter and Fern ShenSep 18, 2019
City solicitor, under fire for defending gag orders, decries people “who want to put us down”
Andre Davis says non-disparagement agreements are “the way lawsuits have been settled for hundreds of years.”
Crime & Justice
Sep 17, 2019
Tales of beatings and terror as City Council advances bill to end police misconduct “gag” clauses
Pushing back on victims, lawmakers and his former 4th Circuit colleagues, Baltimore City Solicitor Andre Davis defends, and still requires, non-disclosure agreements.
Sep 16, 2019
ACLU calls Young’s executive order on police misconduct gag orders “a sham”
Order allows Baltimore to continue gag orders, prohibiting only “unreasonable” ones. ACLU calls Young’s “truth-to-power” language in issuing the order “disgusting.”
Aug 29, 2019
Baltimore won’t pursue “gag order” case to the Supreme Court
Accepting the Appeals Court ruling that police settlements include unconstitutional provisions, Andre Davis argues that he has changed the language to satisfy the courts.
Special SeriesAug 22, 2019
Employee who posted racist, anti-Semitic tweets “no longer employed by City of Baltimore”
Crescenzo Gizzi’s “intentionally” offensive tweets could have been made on city time and, therefore, violated personnel policy, Inspector General Cumming finds.
Jul 26, 2019
ACLU on why the Baltimore City Council “gag order” bill is still needed
FOR THE RECORD: Letter to Council argues why it has the authority to end the practice.
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