Ever since 2017 when police brutality victim Ashley Overbey Underwood and this website, Baltimore Brew, sued to end the use of non-disclosure agreements to settle police misconduct claims, attorneys for the city have been fighting against the lawsuit – even after a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding the practice unconstitutional.

This past week, taking a new tack, Deputy City Solicitor Dana Moore toldreporters the effort to ban the so-called “gag orders” is unnecessary because the city has modified them to the point where claimants are free to speak openly.

“This is not true,” argues David Rocah, ACLU of Maryland senior staff attorney, in a letter to City Council President Brandon M. Scott.

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