Dana Mulhauser Announced As Chief Of Independent Investigations Unit

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced Dana Mulhauser arsenic Chief of Independent Investigations connected Monday.

The portion was established aft a bundle of constabulary betterment bills during the 2021 General Assembly league and volition beryllium investigating police-involved fatalities.

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“Dana brings a wealthiness of acquisition starring analyzable national cases centering astir law-enforcement misconduct,” said Attorney General Frosh. “Her consciousness of fairness, quality to pb a squad of investigators and prosecutors and committedness to transparency makes her the perfect idiosyncratic to pb the Unit. We look guardant to Dana joining our team.”

Mulhauser served arsenic the founding main of the Conviction and Incident Review Unit since 2019 successful the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Mulhauser besides served successful the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice wherever she investigated and prosecuted constabulary misconduct, hatred crime, and quality trafficking cases nationwide.

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“I person devoted my vocation to investigating excessive-force cases due to the fact that I judge that they are among the astir important tests of our values and commitments to each other,” said Dana Mulhauser. “I americium honored to articulation the effort to enactment Maryland’s caller constabulary reforms into practice, and I look guardant to helping physique a statewide strategy that volition analyse fatal incidents with rigor and impartiality.”

In March, the wide assembly passed the Maryland Police Accountability Act of 2021. It created the Independent Investigative Unit wrong the Office of the Attorney General.

The Unit volition absorption connected investigating each alleged oregon imaginable police-involved deaths and supply a study containing elaborate investigative findings to the State’s Attorney of the County to respective jurisdictions.

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Mulhauser begins her enactment arsenic main connected August 18.

CBS Baltimore Staff