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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 11-12 Director; staff; budget.">
  <section prefix="§" num="11-12" heading="Director; staff; budget.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Director.">The Director of the Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights, or its successor office, serves as the director of the Baltimore City Police Accountability Board and is responsible for assisting the Board in performing its responsibilities.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Staff.">In consultation with the Board, the Director may assign staff from the Office of Equity and Civil Rights to assist the Police Accountability Board and the Administrative Charging Committee.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Budget.">The Director may expend funds as authorized in the Ordinance of Estimates or in any supplementary appropriations.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Public records requests — Personnel records.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">
        <para num="(i)">At the time a former police officer is nominated to the Board under &lt;cite data-path="|1|§11-3|(a)|(2)"&gt;§ 11-3(a)(2) {“Nomination and appointment”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; the Director shall submit written public records requests for the former police officer’s personnel records.</para>
        <para num="(ii)">Written public records request shall be submitted to all known law enforcement agencies, police forces, sheriff’s offices, or security forces or law enforcement organizations, regardless of jurisdiction, that employed the former police officer.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Access to personnel records.">Access to personnel records received resulting from requests submitted under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be limited to those individuals directly involved with the nomination and appointment process for Board members.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Retention and disposition of personnel records.">All personnel records collected under this subsection shall be retained for the duration of the nomination and appointment process, and then destroyed.</para>
    </para>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
