BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates is calling for more transparency surrounding the Safe Streets program and is pushing back on recent comments from Mayor Brandon Scott about those who question the program.
Safe Streets is run through the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, or MONSE, and is one of the city’s flagship gun violence prevention programs. With 10 locations around the city, LifeBridge Health and Catholic Charities run the day-to-day operations of the locations and employee the violence interrupters.
Despite being funded through tax dollars, the city shields information about who the violence interrupters are, including their names. Mayor Brandon Scott and other city leaders have argued the names of the Safe Streets workers aren’t the city’s to release since the workers aren’t technically city employees. The safety of the violence interrupters is another reason why Mayor Scott has said information about the employees won’t be released…