Police brutality victims and their advocates are planning to testify next Monday in support of a City Council bill aimed at ending the use of non-disclosure agreements, or “gag orders,” in police brutality and discrimination cases.

Bill 19-0409 would prohibit the city from requiring police misconduct and discrimination victims, as a condition for receiving a financial settlement, not to “disparage” the city and strictly limit what they say to the press and on social media.

“Not only does this cruel practice make individuals and families stay in the closet about their suffering, it keeps all Baltimoreans in the dark about police misconduct and discrimination,” the ACLU of Maryland said in a statement announcing the hearing date.

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