MD Attorney General Takes Steps to Eliminate Police Profiling

WASHINGTON — (WMAL) Maryland’s Attorney General Brian Frosh is issuing new guidelines to prevent discriminatory police profiling,

Frosh said the statewide guidelines are similar to those issued last December by the Justice Department. Those guidelines encouraged each state to provide directions of their own to their officers.

Frosh said Maryland will be the first state to issue its own guidance.

The state will have the guidelines cover a wide scope of police actions, not just the typical traffic stop.

The guidelines will consider not only ethnicity and race, but also such characteristics as religion, sexual orientation, gender, and national of origin.

Police actions must remain neutral to these traits unless they are legitimate aspects to consider in specific police investigations.