Mohan v. Norris

DEBORAH S. EYLER, Judge.

This case presents the question of whether a police officer who is certified for permanent appointment by the Maryland Police Training Commission (“MPTC”), but is a probationary police officer employee of the Department of State Police (“State Police”), is “in a probationary status,” and therefore is not a “law enforcement officer,” under the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights (“LEOBR”).

In an action for injunctive and declaratory relief by Andrew A. Mohan, the appellant, against Colonel Edward T. Norris, then-Secretary of the State Police, and the State Police…