Maryland State Police must turn over racial profiling complaints to NAACP - baltimoresun.com: The state's top court has ruled that the State Police must give the NAACP access to internal affairs files on racial profiling complaints.
The civil rights group requested the documents under the Maryland Public Information Act but the police denied the request, saying the records were protected personnel files. The state's top court rejected that argument, agreeing with a Baltimore County court that if the identifying information is redacted the information could be shared.
Gerald Stansbury, the president of the Maryland branch of the NAACP, said the ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals will help keep the police accountable.
"It's important because it lets us know that when these kinds of complaints are filed that they are taken seriously," he said.
The State Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Stansbury said the redactions will not be a problem because the NAACP has enough of its own information on the complaints to fill in the blanks.
