Office of the Inspector General

Inspector General Madigan calls it the “aha moment.”

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.

The inspector general warns conditions could violate labor standards and union agreements.

Changes have been made to a proposed advisory board.

The amendment would remove elected officials and their designees from the board.

The Maryland State Board of Ed votes for a statewide in-school masking mandate. Baltimore County prepares to reopen schools amid a county-wide State of Emergency. And in Garrett County, the vaccine clinic at the county fair meets with skepticism.

Baltimore’s Inspector General recommends tightening telework policies after a city worker is discovered holding two jobs. Hogan criticizes other Republican governors for bans of school mask mandates. Plus, a conversation with the head of a hospital in Maryland’s Garrett County, where the vaccination rate is only 38 percent.

Comptroller Bill Henry says he will ask a commission tasked with recommending changes to Baltimore City charter to evaluate the makeup of the Office of the Inspector General oversight board, which currently includes city staffers that have been part of OIG investigations, according to the IG.

A Baltimore City panel met Tuesday morning to discuss a performance evaluation of Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming, whose office investigates complaints of waste, fraud and abuse — including investigations involving panel members, according to the IG.

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.