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Md. Code, State Government § 2-1261

This is the official text of Md. Code, State Government § 2-1261, part of Maryland’s Code, State Government — covers the structure and operation of Maryland state government.

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§2–1261.

Official statutory text

(a) On or before October 31 each year, the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services shall submit to the Department, in the form of electronic raw data, de–identified and disaggregated by age, race, and sex, information required to be reported to the Governor in accordance with § 3–207(a)(2) of the Correctional Services Article.

(b) (1) On or before November 30 each year, the Department of State Police shall submit to the Department, in a format that the Executive Director requires, the information collected in accordance with § 2–307(a)(2) of the Public Safety Article.

(2) On or before August 1, 2022, the Department of State Police and the Department shall enter into a memorandum of understanding, the terms of which shall include:

(i) a data sharing agreement for all information collected in accordance with § 2–307 of the Public Safety Article;

(ii) a work plan for access to collected data for research and statistical analysis purposes;

(iii) a listing of all data fields collected for the Crime in Maryland Report and the Hate Bias Report; and

(iv) an update on the status of compliance with the National Incident–Based Reporting System by law enforcement agencies in the State.

(c) On or before October 31 each year, the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission shall submit to the Department, in the form of electronic raw data, de–identified and disaggregated by agency and incident:

(1) information required to be reported to the General Assembly in accordance with § 3–514(b)(1) of the Public Safety Article; and

(2) information required to be collected in accordance with § 3–207(b) of the Public Safety Article.

(d) On or before October 31 each year, the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall submit to the Department, in the form of electronic raw data, de–identified and disaggregated by incident, information collected in accordance with:

(1) § 3–528 of the Public Safety Article; and

(2) § 25–113 of the Transportation Article.

(e) On or before August 1, 2022, the Department of Juvenile Services and the Department shall enter into a memorandum of understanding, the terms of which shall include:

(1) the provision of various custom reports to the Department, including information, de–identified and disaggregated by juvenile, relating to the juvenile’s record of:

(i) delinquency;

(ii) court actions;

(iii) supervision; and

(iv) placement; and

(2) the development of a work plan by the Department of Juvenile Services regarding efforts to include specific race and ethnicity data for individual juveniles.

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