inspector

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Tensions peaked recently at Baltimore’s ornate City Hall, where members of the all-Democratic City Council considered a proposal—which would require voter approval—to explicitly grant the inspector general access to records.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Cumming was named Baltimore’s inspector general in 2018 by then-Mayor Catherine Pugh, who later went to prison for a criminal scheme in which she illegally profited from the sale of self-published children’s books.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

On the agenda: a fierce debate over whether to give the city’s inspector general greater access to scrutinize spending by the administration of Mayor Brandon Scott.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The audit by the Homeland Security inspector general found that only seven of 63 officers reviewed had received any level of riot and crowd control training.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Then she asked what the inspector had told her to ask..“Marshall, did you see the—the man—the man who grabbed me?”

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder