Baltimore adjusts OIG operations to comply with state privacy laws

Baltimore City Solicitor Ebony Thompson received notice of an official legal opinion issued by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office clarifying local governments’ obligations to follow mandatory confidentiality provisions outlined in state law, officials say.

These provisions include protections for personnel records, medical information, and financial information.

This prevents such information from going to an inspector general, even when law or charter provisions seek to expand the scope of what a local inspector general may access…

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