(Credit: AP)
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.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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6 Comments
umm theres an election year coming this is for press obviously.
May 13, 2011 at 11:08 am | | Report comment
This is something that should’ve been implemented all along. Doesn’t matter whether its an election year or not.. Good now maybe jobs will become available for those who are not criminals..
May 13, 2011 at 12:25 pm | | Report comment
I concur!!
May 13, 2011 at 1:22 pm | | Report comment
Good! City employees must be accountable.
May 13, 2011 at 1:28 pm | | Report comment
Make government more open and honest?
Looks like she is admitting that there is the “Culture of Corruption”.
King O’Malley will have to straighten her out, becuase there could not possiblt be dishonest government in Maryland, right?
May 13, 2011 at 5:16 pm | | Report comment
King O’Malley” lol, good name for him( would have also worked as” Boss” O’Malley, Let’s hope this clown never gets elected to be VP or worse PotUS.
May 13, 2011 at 6:21 pm | | Report comment