South River Source

County Executive John Leopold and Anne Arundel Police Chief James Teare have some explaining to do. So says a media release from the Maryland Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who said that employees of the County Executive improperly accessed state and federal criminal history databases. On Tuesday, the ACLU called on Leopold [...]

John Sale of Riva doesn’t mind the decision to move trash collection to once-a-week in Anne Arundel County. He said sometimes he doesn’t even put his trash out twice in the week. But one thing he doesn’t like is that the decision seems to have come out of nowhere. “Nobody bothered to ask anybody,” Sale [...]

In late April, the South River Source received information from an anonymous source that the Anne Arundel County Police Department (AACPD) was not investigating police named in the five count indictment of County Executive John Leopold. Typically, if an AACPD officer is alleged or suspected to have been involved in or associated with criminal activity, [...]

The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, the union that represents the sergeants and lieutenants of the Anne Arundel County Police, sponsored a poll that reached out to 300 county residents during the week of April 23. The poll was conducted by DAPA Research. The poll was conducted in the wake of the March 2 indictment [...]

Anne Arundel County Public Schoolson Friday highlighted capital projects that County Executive John Leopold eliminated from the Board of Education‘s proposed six-year construction plan. Leopold submitted his budget to the County Council earlier this month. The Council can restore the eliminated projects, but they cannot increase the overall amount of funding for schools. Throughout the [...]

Of the six times that County Executive John Leopold has submitted a budget proposal, three times he has failed to give the school system the amount of money necessary to meet the state required Maintenance of Effort (MOE). The first time this happened, in 2010-11, he asked the state to waive the MOE, but later [...]