Terms Used In Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 10-409

  • Administrator: includes an executor and a personal representative. See
  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • Investigative or law enforcement officer: means any officer of this State or a political subdivision of this State, who is empowered by law to conduct investigations of or to make arrests for offenses enumerated in this subtitle, any sworn law enforcement officer of the federal government or of any other state or a political subdivision of another state, working with and under the direction of an investigative or law enforcement officer of this State or a political subdivision of this State, and any attorney authorized by law to prosecute or participate in the prosecution of such offenses. See
  • Person: means any employee or agent of this State or a political subdivision thereof, and any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, or corporation. See
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) Within 30 days after the expiration of the total period of an order, including each extension entered under § 10-408 of this subtitle, or within 30 days after denial of an application for an order or extension, the judge who passed the order or denied the application shall report to the Administrative Office of the Courts:

(1) The fact that an order or extension was applied for;

(2) The kind of order or extension applied for;

(3) The fact that the order or extension was granted as applied for, was modified, or was denied;

(4) The period of interceptions authorized by the order and the number and duration of any extensions of the order;

(5) The offense specified in the order or application or extension of an order;

(6) The identity of the applying investigative or law enforcement officer and agency making the application and the person authorizing the application; and

(7) The nature of the facilities from which or the place where communications were to be intercepted.

(b) In January of each year, the Attorney General, the State Prosecutor, and the State’s Attorneys shall report to the Administrative Office of the Courts:

(1) The information required by subsection (a) of this section with respect to each application for an order or extension made during the preceding calendar year;

(2) A general description of the interceptions made under the order or extension, including (i) the approximate nature and frequency of incriminating communications intercepted, (ii) the approximate nature and frequency of other communications intercepted, (iii) the approximate number of persons whose communications were intercepted, and (iv) the approximate nature, amount, and cost of the manpower and other resources used in the interceptions;

(3) The number of arrests resulting from interceptions made under the order or extension and the offenses for which arrests were made;

(4) The number of trials resulting from the interceptions;

(5) The number of motions to suppress made with respect to the interceptions and the number granted or denied;

(6) The number of convictions resulting from the interceptions and the offenses for which the convictions were obtained and a general assessment of the importance of the interceptions; and

(7) The information required by paragraphs (2) through (6) of this subsection with respect to orders or extensions obtained in a preceding calendar year.

(c) Subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, in February of each year, the State Court Administrator shall transmit to the General Assembly a full and complete report concerning the number of applications for orders authorizing or approving the interception of wire or oral communications and the number of orders and extensions granted or denied during the preceding calendar year. The report shall include a summary and analysis of the data required to be filed with the Administrative Office by subsections (a) and (b) of this section. The State Court Administrator is authorized to issue binding regulations dealing with the content and form of the reports required to be filed by subsections (a) and (b) of this section.