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Maryland Code, Public Safety § 4-1011

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) In this section, “local law enforcement agency” means:

(1) a police department of a county or municipal corporation in the State; or

(2) the office of the sheriff that provides a law enforcement function in a county or municipal corporation in the State.

(b) For fiscal years 2024 through 2026, each year the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $2,000,000 for local law enforcement agencies to be used as grants for warrant apprehension efforts.

(c)(1) The Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall administer the grant funds in accordance with § 4-1008 of this subtitle.

(2) Local law enforcement agencies may use the grant funds for the following purposes:

(i) to reduce warrants in the agency's jurisdiction;

(ii) to increase coordination and cooperation between local law enforcement and State and federal agencies regarding outstanding warrants; and

(iii) to reduce the number of outstanding warrants related to violent crimes.

(d) The funds required to be included in the annual budget bill under subsection (b) of this section shall be used solely to supplement, and not supplant, funds otherwise available to local law enforcement agencies for warrant apprehension efforts.

(e) An eligible local law enforcement agency that receives a grant under subsection (b) of this section shall submit for each fiscal year the following to the Executive Director:

(1) proof of the expenditure of the grant funds and the purposes for which the funds were expended;

(2) total warrants in each county by type of warrant and related offense;

(3) total number of warrants reduced and suspects apprehended, delineated by offense; and

(4) any related outcome-based performance measures as required by § 4-1009 of this subtitle.

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