The bills, which follow the expiration of a city moratorium on facial recognition technology, would grant City Council authority to approve agency purchases of surveillance tech and impose strict regulations on their use by both the government and the private sector.

A meeting of the city’s Board of Estimates on Wednesday offered the first public forum for other elected officials to weigh in on the mayor’s spending plan for the budget year beginning July 1.

Assessments shared with agencies and nonprofits give a glimpse at the risk Baltimore could run into problems or miss deadlines for spending pandemic relief, but also the ambition of the city's plans for the money.

The controversial tool has been on Baltimore’s books for more than 20 years, but has been enforced only sporadically.

The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. on Easter evening in the 400 block of East Pratt Street near Shake Shack, as police were arresting an individual they said was involved in a large fight.

Archbishop William Lori's homily at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen came just four days after the release of the Attorney General's years-long investigation into sexual abuse and cover-up in Maryland churches.

City officials voiced concern about the financial impact of ending tax sales after learning that Baltimore faced a $79 million increase in education spending — an unanticipated cost that Mayor Brandon Scott likened to a ”gut punch.”

For the first time since the Great Recession, the city will balance its budget by tapping a reserve fund typically used for legal settlements.

A state investigation into the Fleischmann’s Vinegar plant in North Baltimore was prompted by complaints from Blue Water Baltimore, which also filed a lawsuit against the company this week.

This time all five members of the board were in the room. But there was no discussion, and no vote taken.

Tensions between the mayor’s public safety office and Roca had delayed a new agreement and cast a shadow over plans to expand the city’s promising anti-violence strategy.

Thirty-nine high school-age residents were shot and 11 died in the first three months of this year – the deadliest start to a year for Baltimore teens since at least 2015.

Safe Streets outposts reduced nearby homicides and nonfatal shootings by an average of 16% to 23%, with larger reductions in homicides during the first four years of the longer-running sites.

Two of Maryland’s third parties have lost their official recognition due to poor showings at the ballot box.

Like other kinds of work in the gig economy, such a program could help address city agencies’ severe staffing needs while connecting people with jobs that could last as long as a day, a week or a month.

The administration was pursuing a first-of-its-kind strategy to deliver fiber internet to every home in Baltimore. But turnover and delay have thrown the approach into question.

The city has only sanctioned a company once before for failing to uphold minority- and women-owned business requirements, and leaders hoped Wednesday’s decision would send a signal about their commitment to supporting them going forward.

Of cars sold to Maryland dealers in model year 2027 — or just three years from now — 43% must be zero emissions. That share steadily increases every year until the 100% requirement goes into effect in model year 2035.

Council President Nick Mosby said the abbreviated, 12-month extension is intended to put pressure on Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration to get moving on a long-promised review of how tax incentives are effecting disinvested parts of town.

Last week, Baltimore landed a $2 million federal grant to begin studying removal of the infamous highway dividing West Baltimore — funding that proponents hope is just the beginning.