Mayor Brandon Scott and his law department are making bogus claims to deny IG Isabel Mercedes Cumming access to records needed for her watchdog role [OP-ED]
Seeking to control and perhaps curtail current and future investigations of his administration, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has declared war on the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and on Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming.
The war is being fought on several fronts, but I am going to focus only on the battle over the attempt by the administration to deny the OIG access to records and information subject to the attorney-client privilege…