# Public Safety (GPS)

## Title 3. Law Enforcement

### Subtitle 1. Police Accountability and Discipline

#### Section 3-108

(a)

  (1) A law enforcement agency shall designate an employee as a victims' rights advocate to act as the contact for the public within the agency on matters related to police misconduct.

  (2) A victims' rights advocate shall:

    (i) explain to a complainant:

      (1) the complaint, investigation, administrative charging committee, and trial board process;

      (2) any decision to terminate an investigation;

      (3) an administrative charging committee's decision of administratively charged, not administratively charged, unfounded, or exonerated; and

      (4) a trial board's decision;

    (ii) provide a complainant with an opportunity to review a police officer's statement, if any, before completion of an investigation by a law enforcement agency's investigative unit;

    (iii) notify a complainant of the status of the case at every stage of the process; and

    (iv) provide a case summary to a complainant within 30 days after final disposition of the case.

(b) Each law enforcement agency shall create a database that enables a complainant to enter the complainant's case number to follow the status of the case as it proceeds through:

  (1) investigation;

  (2) charging;

  (3) offer of discipline;

  (4) trial board;

  (5) ultimate discipline; and

  (6) appeal.

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Md. Code Ann., Pub. Safety (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)