Baltimore City Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming

The family wants more investigatory materials and another public hearing.

DPW is still finalizing the implementation of a heat standard.

Solid waste laborers in the Baltimore City Department of Public Works get 15 cents an hour for hazard pay.

The state labor department found that on August 2nd, workers like Ronald Silver II were subject to direct sunlight with a heat index of 108 degrees.

During the time of the investigation, two sanitation workers died from illness or injury on the job. While the report does not detail their causes of death, it provides insight into the conditions they experienced before they died.

This comes after months of insisting from the Maryland DOL that citations are due within six months of the incident.

Isabel Cumming is in her 6th year in Baltimore's Office of Inspector General. Recent reports from her office illuminate the mistreatment of city workers.

Baltimore City Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming defended her office’s work investigating complaints of waste, fraud and abuse and criticized the composition of an advisory board tasked with evaluating her job performance during a meeting Wednesday.

An engineer at the Department of Public Works used his telework status to concurrently work two full-time jobs with overlapping hours, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General.

Baltimore City police officers may collect double pay by filing for overtime during shifts where they are simultaneously using paid leave, such as vacation. This arrangement, which is part of the police department’s memorandum of understanding with the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, was examined in a new report from Baltimore’s Office of the Inspector General.