Inspector generals are now calling on legislature to pass an exemption to the state’s open records law, after Baltimore City’s Inspector General Isabel Cumming received heavily redacted internal documents for the first time in her eight year tenure.
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“This denial allows political actors or others who wield power within the overseen entity to hide crucial information behind a facade of privilege,” she told the Inspector General Advisory Board during a meeting on Tuesday.
Cumming has been outspoken about the issue that began on Friday, January 16th when she received 200 pages of financial records that were mostly blacked out…