Montgomery OKs some disability reforms

The Montgomery County Council passed legislation Tuesday that would allow disabled police officers hurt in the line of duty to continue to draw a full disability pension regardless of the severity of their injury.

The full council agreed to procedural changes to the county’s disability pension system that were previously agreed upon by County Executive Ike Leggett and the Fraternal Order of Police union, but was split over whether to require the county and the unions to agree to a two-tier disability system that would likely pay less money to partially disabled officers and more to fully disabled officers.