Legislation Creates Task Force to Study Surveillance Tactics

By CARRIE SNURR, Capital News Service
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A bill making its way through the Maryland legislature would create a taskforce to study police use of surveillance technologies, such as facial recognition software.
The bill, HB 1065, establishing the Task Force to Study Law Enforcement Surveillance Technologies, passed in the Maryland House and is now under consideration by a Senate committee.
“This goes back to the citizens’ right to know,” Delegate Char