# COMAR Title 29 — Department of State Police

## Subtitle 08 — Investigations Involving the Exercise of First Amendment Activities

### Chapter 01 — Covert Investigations and Criminal Intelligence

#### Regulation .05 Prohibited Practices.

*COMAR 29.08.01.05*

A. A member of the Department may not investigate, prosecute, disrupt, interfere with, harass, or discriminate against a person engaged in a First Amendment activity for the purpose of punishing a person for, retaliating against a person for, or preventing or hindering a person from exercising constitutional rights.

B. Members of the Department may not:

  (1) Collect or disseminate information that becomes known to them through covert investigations or through access to criminal intelligence, except as specifically provided by this subtitle and State and federal law;

  (2) Employ or direct an individual to obtain intelligence data in a manner that is inconsistent with this subtitle or State and federal law; or

  (3) Use any information that becomes known to them through covert surveillance, covert investigations, or access to criminal intelligence for political or economic purposes or for personal gain.