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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="24-1205" title_number="24" title_name="Miscellaneous Education Agencies" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Police Department of the Johns Hopkins University">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If the University establishes a police department under this subtitle, the University shall establish a University Police Accountability Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Accountability Board is to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Enable community members to share community concerns regarding the police department directly with police department leadership;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Review police department metrics;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Provide feedback on existing police department policies and practices, including police department standards for hiring and recruitment; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Suggest ideas for improving police department policies, procedures, and performance, including ideas for community–based public safety initiatives.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Accountability Board shall be composed of 15 individuals, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Students, faculty, and staff of the University;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Members of the Baltimore City community from the neighborhoods adjacent to the campus area; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A member of the Johns Hopkins University Black Faculty and Staff Association.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Accountability Board shall include at least one community representative who is unaffiliated with the University from each of the following neighborhoods:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The neighborhood adjacent to the University’s Homewood campus;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The neighborhood adjacent to the University’s East Baltimore campus; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The neighborhood adjacent to the University’s Peabody campus.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection, University leadership shall appoint the individuals to the Accountability Board with the advice and consent of the Senate.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Mayor of Baltimore City and the Baltimore City Council President each shall appoint an individual to the Accountability Board.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>University leadership, in consultation with the Baltimore City Council, shall appoint the community representatives specified under paragraph (2) of this subsection with the advice and consent of the Senate.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Accountability Board shall have the authority to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Review police department metrics involving crime;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Review current and prospective police department policies, procedures, and training; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Provide recommendations to the University on current and prospective police department policies, procedures, and training.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Accountability Board shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Meet at least quarterly;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Hold at least one public meeting each year to seek input on police department policies, procedures, and training from community members of Baltimore City; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Post the minutes from each meeting in a prominent manner on a website available to the public.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
