BALTIMORE (AP) — The mayor’s office says about a dozen Baltimore city employees have been arrested on open warrants.

A spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tells the Baltimore Sun that the arrests were made after the city’s police force checked databases and found open warrants for serious offenses. The names of the employees, their offenses and the agencies they worked for were not released.

The spokesman said the mayor’s office recently began checking a database of the city’s 15,000 employees against a list of people with outstanding warrants. He said the checks are part of an effort to create a more “open and honest” government and added that they will be repeated in the future.

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