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Maryland Attorney General

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Attorney General to Carroll County: Email Addresses Can't Be Unilaterally Redacted

Carroll County Commissioner Doug Howard said he still believes it is best to withhold email addresses when it comes to public information act requests.

The State's Attorney General's Office returned its opinion to the Board of Carroll County Commissioners concluding that email addresses should not be unilaterally redacted from Public Information Act (PIA) requests. In a December 2011 board of Carroll County commissioners meeting, the board unanimously voted to redact email addresses from PIA requests, citing security concerns. During the 2011 meeting, Commissioner Richard Rothschild said the deputy legal counsel for Gov. Martin O'Malley did not believe that releasing email addresses was in the public interest because it would have "a chilling effect on communications." Rothschild added that emails are often tied to individual security information and should be kept private. As a result, …

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Buck Harmon

11:38 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013

Two questions for Commissioner Richard Rothschild.. 1.If the County Commissioners willingly break the law should they be held accountable? 2. Is law a joke or an illusion that does not need to be recognized?   more ›

Friday, May 18, 2012

Court Orders Recognition Of Out-Of-State Gay Marriages

Ruling stems from divorce case filed by a couple married in California in 2008.

UPDATED (5:12 p.m.)—Same-sex marriages legally performed out of state must be recognized by Maryland Courts, according to a decision issued Friday by Maryland’s highest court. “Maryland courts will withhold recognition of a valid foreign marriage only if that marriage is ‘repugnant’ to State public policy,” wrote Court of Appeals Judge Glenn Harrell Jr. in the 7-0 decision. Legal experts and Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler said the decision has both immediate and long-term effects—even as the state moves toward a possible referendum on the recently passed law allowing same-sex marriage in the state. Gansler, who in 2010 issued what he called “a forecast” opinion predicting the court would ultimately recognize out-of-state same-…

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Escariot

8:29 pm on Saturday, June 9, 2012

So, according to your post above, we should impeach Barack Obama because he crossed the separation of church and state by trying to force religious institutions to pay for abortions. I am glad that we agree. Also, the vote on healthcare using reconciliation should also lead to the impeachment of Barack Obama because 60+ percent of Americans opposed it. But strangely sir, I do not see your posts …   more ›

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