http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com The law in plain english Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:17:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mayor Sheila Dixon and City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake have strongly supported the Baltimore Police Department’s surveillance-video system. Last week they joined in announcing that the Citiwatch program has been expanded to 480 cameras, all of which will be monitored in a new, single site. “Centralizing all camera monitoring in one ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/07/01/baltimore-police-video-surveillance-expands/ As a kid I used to amuse myself at the post office by standing backward in line, checking the bulletin board’s FBI Most Wanted List while my mother mailed packages. Today, we can see fugitives’ mugshots and information about their evilness online. It’s a far-ranging list, with Osama bin Laden on ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/06/24/find-out-what-criminals-and-terrorists-to-watch-for-now/ Do you worry about the sprouting of surveillance cameras wherever you go? Some are thankful for it – and not just those doing the watching. Some Baltimore leaders, including Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III and City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, favor installing more video cameras on city streets to watch ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/06/16/vindicated-by-video/ People get wrapped up in statistics. For some, it’s the Oriole pitching staff’s ERA. Others worry about the unemployment and foreclosure rates. For those concerned about crime, there are lots of numbers to check. Police departments keep them. So do prosecutors. And so do those who wonder where it’s safe ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/06/15/numbers-about-crime-that-matter/ Which do you fear more, terrorists or airport security checkpoints? According to a report released by the federal Transportation Security Administration, people continue to try to carry weapons with them onto airliners. But Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to limit checkpoint devices that show images of prospective passengers as if ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/06/07/privacy-vs-security-at-the-airport/ The second half of Exhibit A’s interview with Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld is available to read here. In it Bealefeld comments on criticism of his department by the city State’s Attorney’s Office of Patricia C. Jessamy (left) for the dismissal of cases when officers haven’t appeared in court to ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/05/31/baltimore-police-and-the-states-attorneys-office/ We hope you’ve read the first half of our interview with Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld. He recently spent 90 minutes answering former Baltimore Sun reporter Melody Simmon’s questions for us. Look for the second half of their conversation here on Monday. A reporter still at The Sun who does ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/05/30/putting-crime-statistics-in-perspective/ Ah, jury duty. A chance to observe and participate in the preservation of our society’s social order. An opportunity to do our part in seeing that justice is served. Our civic duty, indeed. Not everyone sees it that way, though. Many people dread jury duty. They might understand why Grant Faber ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/05/24/better-to-do-jury-duty-than-own-time-behind-bars/ You’re probably an experienced user of e-mail. But have you ever gotten an e-citation? And if the police have given you one, did you beat the criminal charge because of a glitch? A man in Baltimore County might. E-citations are tickets that Maryland State Police troopers have been handing out since ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/05/17/judge-sides-with-driver-trying-to-beat-computer-printed-dui-ticket/ Since kindergarten, Charlie, the son of journalist Mary Jacoby, has been detained – sometimes for hours – at airport security checkpoints because his name was on the FBI’s terrorist list. Years of pleading to federal agencies by his parents finally got his record cleared, but the not-so-scary second-grader still has been ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/05/11/is-this-the-face-of-a-traitorous-terrorist/