BALTIMORE (AP) — Gov. Martin O’Malley will meet next week with a commission he created in response to the death in custody of a man with Down syndrome to hear about the panel’s progress in devising training for law enforcement officers and others in dealing with the intellectually and developmentally disabled, the panel’s chairman said Thursday.
Timothy Shriver outlined for panel members the discussion he hopes to have with the outgoing Democratic governor Wednesday. It would include the panel’s oversight of a police academy regimen featuring disabled people as trainers that will become mandatory for new officers statewide in 2015.
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