Greetings everyone.

Welcome to the Charles County Police Accountability Review Board meeting for April 23rd, 2026.

Meeting is now called to order.

The time is 4 06 p.m.

I

have our law enforcement uh agencies with us.

Would you please uh identify yourselves for the record?

Good

afternoon, Mr.

Chair.

I'm Jerome Spencer from the general counsel of the Charles County Sheriff's Office.

Right Rodney Ely, Chief of Staff, Charles County Sheriff's Office.

Captain John Dodge, Commander, Office of Professional Responsibility, Charles County Sheriff's Office.

Matt Norris, I'm the chief of police for the La Plata Police Department.

Welcome.

Thank you very much.

So we're gonna go ahead and jump right into the agenda.

We have calls order.

Welcome and law enforcement agents communications, unfinished business, new business, closing for law enforcement portion of the meeting.

Is there anything that needs to be amended to the agenda?

Okay.

Not sure if it's appropriate.

Um good afternoon, Danielle Mitchell.

Um, I'm not sure if it's appropriate, but I wanted to give the board a little bit of uh legal advice on an item from your annual report.

I intended to do that under unfinished business, but it would be legal advice, which is appropriate for a closed session.

So I don't know that you necessarily need to make an amendment at this time to the agenda, but when we get there, I'll just ask for that motion to move into closed.

Okay, putting everyone on notice.

Thank you.

Very good.

Thank

you.

All right, if there's no amendments to the agenda, floor is open to a motion to accept

Mr.

Chair, uh Quantum Fletcher.

I move that we accept the agenda as proposed.

The floor open for a second.

Second.

All right,

it's been probably moving second that the law enforcement portion of the agenda be approved as written.

All

those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed have the same right.

Ayes have it.

Thank you very

much.

All right, gentlemen, welcome once again, and uh floor is yours.

All right,

Chairman, thank you.

Um, nothing significant to report, just wanted to uh provide just some uh a couple statistics regarding uh 2025.

Um just some numbers on our our internal investigations in 2025.

We uh had a total of 66 internal investigations, um, slight upcre from the year prior in 2024 where we had 63.

Um, but the our number of complaints end up remaining pretty consistent between the two years.

About halfway through the year there, we thought we were gonna blow that number out of the water, but once summer passed, everything kind of settled down, which uh we were certainly thankful for.

Um, of the uh last year of the complaints of the 66 complaints, we were able to complete 43 of them within the year.

Several of them are carryovers are still being worked on, as um, I believe the report you got end of the month shows uh which ones we still have open.

But um of those 13 cases, um a total of 23 violations were sustained.

Um our most prevalent sustained violation being our digital mobile video recording policy, so our in-car camera body worn cameras.

Um we had five of those um along with uh five performance of duty violations and then a few miscellaneous in there, but um by and large, as far as our sustained cases last year, um nothing crazy.

We sent um 34 cases to the ACC in 2025, which is an increase of one from the year prior, where we sent 33.