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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="3-110" title_number="3" title_name="Law Enforcement" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Police Accountability and Discipline">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A police officer may not be discharged, disciplined, demoted, or denied promotion, transfer, or reassignment, or otherwise discriminated against or threatened in regard to the police officer’s employment because the police officer:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>disclosed information that evidences:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>mismanagement;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a waste of government resources;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a danger to public health or safety; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a violation of law or policy committed by another police officer; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>lawfully exercised constitutional rights.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A police officer may not be denied the right to bring suit arising out of the police officer’s official duties.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a police officer has the same rights to engage in political activity as a State employee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This right to engage in political activity does not apply when the police officer is on duty or acting in an official capacity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a law enforcement agency may not prohibit secondary employment by police officers.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A law enforcement agency may adopt reasonable regulations that relate to secondary employment by police officers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
