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Complaint Nos. 22-0002-E and 22-0003-E
City Council President Nicholas Mosby
Baltimore, Md., 5/5/2025
In the matter of Ethics Board complaint Nos. 22-0002-E and 22-0003-E, Petitioners seeking the disclosure of the names of contributors to the Mosby Fund challenged the ruling of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City (the Hon. Judge Fletcher-Hill presiding) that the “City Board of Ethics was required to withhold from public disclosure”.
On May 2, the Appellate Court of Maryland (formerly known as “Court of Special Appeals”) issued a REPORTED opinion IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE CITY (Circuit Court for Baltimore City Case Nos. 24-C-23-004122, 24-C-23-004416), finding:
“The information requested here, the names and addresses of donors to the Mosby Trust, constituted financial information under GP § 4-336. The Ethics Board properly redacted that information in responding to appellants’ MPIA requests. The Compliance Board erred in ordering the Ethics Board to produce an unredacted list of donors, and the circuit court properly reversed the decision of the Compliance Board.”
Baltimore, Md., 3/21/2023
In the matter of Ethics Board complaint Nos. 22-0002-E and 22-0003-E, the Baltimore City Ethics Board (“Board”) has received the documents requested from the Respondent, City Council President Mosby. The Board is confident that Council President Mosby has complied with the Board’s Administrative Order dated May 12, 2022, within the time frame set by the Board.
Baltimore, Md., 3/15/2024
On March 15, 2024, the Baltimore City Circuit Court, the Hon. Judge Fletcher-Hill presiding, confirmed the Board’s position that, under the MPIA, this list of “specific contributions made by private individuals to a private trust through a private web site is information concerning the contributors’ ‘financial . . . activities’ and therefore is ‘information about the finances of an individual’ that the City Board of Ethics was required to withhold from public disclosure.”