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Annapolis 4:58 a.m. 11:26 a.m. 4:56 p.m. 11:06 p.m.
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Mars 6:40 a.m. 7:50 p.m.

Jupiter 2:45 p.m. 12:18 a.m.

Saturn 4:57 p.m. 2:28 a.m.

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Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny. High 66–70. Wind
northwest 3–6 mph. Tonight, clear. Low 50–55. Wind west–
northwest 3–6 mph. Friday, sunny. High 71–75. Wind west
3–6 mph. Saturday, mostly sunny. High 69–73. Wind light,
variable. Sunday, partly sunny.

Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly sunny, less humid. High
81–85. Wind northwest 7–14 mph. Tonight, clear. Low
62–66. Wind west 4–8 mph. Friday, mostly sunny. High
82–86. Wind southwest 6–12 mph. Saturday, mostly sunny.
High 78 –83. Wind northeast 7–14 mph.

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7 out of 11+

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Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly sunny. Wind
northwest 6–12 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestricted. • Lower
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny. Wind north–
northwest 6–12 knots. Waves around a foot on the Chesapeake Bay
and the Potomac River.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be
around 3.2 feet today, falling to near 3.1 feet on Friday. Flood stage
at Little Falls is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 78/56/s 80/55/pc

Albuquerque 96/67/t 96/68/pc

Anchorage 67/51/pc 66/52/pc

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Birmingham 88/62/s 91/65/s

Bismarck, ND 71/47/pc 68/52/pc

Boise 95/64/pc 92/64/s

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Charlotte 84/60/s 88/63/s

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Memphis 89/66/s 90/67/s

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Tampa 93/77/t 90/76/t

Wichita 89/71/pc 84/70/r

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Amsterdam 73/55/pc 72/54/pc

Athens 91/74/s 90/74/s

Auckland 59/50/pc 61/50/sh

Baghdad 117/85/s 118/84/s

Bangkok 90/78/t 88/78/t

Beijing 87/65/s 89/62/s

Berlin 84/63/t 84/64/pc

Bogota 68/43/pc 69/47/c

Brussels 76/52/pc 75/55/pc

Buenos Aires 69/46/t 62/42/pc

Cairo 98/76/s 96/75/s

Caracas 76/67/pc 75/67/t

Copenhagen 75/58/t 72/60/pc

Dakar 86/79/pc 85/78/sh

Dublin 67/56/sh 65/56/r

Edinburgh 64/54/c 65/57/r

Frankfurt 85/63/t 87/64/pc

Geneva 80/61/t 82/60/pc

Ham., Bermuda 86/78/pc 86/79/pc

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Ho Chi Minh City 85/78/t 87/78/t

Hong Kong 90/81/t 88/80/t

Islamabad 99/81/s 96/79/s

Istanbul 85/71/s 83/70/s

Jerusalem 85/71/s 85/66/s

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Kabul 95/63/s 94/62/s

Kingston, Jam. 88/76/t 88/79/t

Kolkata 90/79/pc 92/79/sh

Lagos 85/76/t 85/75/t

Lima 65/59/s 65/59/s

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Madrid 92/65/pc 93/65/pc

Manila 88/78/t 85/77/t

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Montreal 76/60/pc 76/54/pc

Moscow 71/49/s 73/51/s

Mumbai 88/80/c 88/80/sh

Nairobi 76/57/pc 76/58/r

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Paris 78/57/pc 81/62/pc

Prague 84/64/t 82/62/t

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Riyadh 111/79/s 111/79/s

Rome 84/69/pc 86/69/pc

San Salvador 90/69/t 89/69/t

Santiago 68/45/pc 69/40/s

Sarajevo 84/57/t 84/57/pc

Seoul 83/66/t 80/64/s

Shanghai 78/69/sh 87/73/pc

Singapore 89/80/c 90/80/c

Stockholm 75/58/t 70/56/pc

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High: Needles, CA 110°

Low: Stanley, ID 24°

World

High: Amarah, Iraq 121°

Low: Summit Station, Greenland –9°

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Mostly sunny and delightful

Mostly sunny skies prevail as high
pressure builds in from the west.
Meanwhile, light winds from the
northwest and west keep the
humidity down with comfortable
dew points in the 50s, as temperatures manage
delightful afternoon highs in the low to mid-80s.
To night, skies remain mostly clear, and with the
drier air and light winds, temperatures cool off
nicely. Lows range from the mid-50s in our
coolest spots north and west to the low to mid-
60s downtown.

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BY PAMELA WOOD

AND WILBORN P. NOBLES III

baltimore — The Justice De-
partment sued the Baltimore
County government Tuesday, al-
leging that a written test for
police officer recruits was unfair-
ly biased against African Ameri-
can applicants.
Black applicants failed the test
at a greater rate than white
applicants, resulting in fewer Af-
rican Americans being hired as
police officers, the Justice De-
partment said in the lawsuit. The
suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District
Court in Baltimore, did not in-
clude the pass rates but said the
difference was “statistically sig-
nificant.”
The exams tested reading,
grammar, logic and other skills
that the suit alleges are not
related t o the job of being a police
officer or police cadet.
Police officials declined to
comment, referring inquiries to
the county executive’s office. Bal-
timore County Executive Johnny
Olszewski Jr. issued a statement
saying the department has dis-
continued the test. He d id not say

when the test was discontinued.

“A law enforcement agency

should look like the community it

serves,” Olszewski (D) said in the

statement. “As I have said repeat-

edly since taking office, I am

committed to increasing diversi-

ty in the county’s Police Depart-

ment.”

Baltimore County, which has

about 828,000 residents, is

57 percent white, 30 percent

black, 6 percent Asian and 6 per-

cent Hispanic or Latino, accord-

ing to U.S. Census Bureau projec-

tions. County officials did not

respond to a request for the

current racial makeup of the

police department’s officers.

Olszewski, who took office in

December, noted that he has

created two positions in his ad-

ministration focused on improv-

ing diversity. He said h e will work

with interested organizations,

such as the Fraternal Order of

Police and the Blue Guardians,

which represents minority offi-

cers.

Olszewski also said his new

police chief, Melissa Hyatt, is

working with him on “concrete

steps forward” toward diversity.

Justice Department officials

declined to comment on the law-

suit and would not say when they

started investigating the county

force.

While the federal lawsuit al-

leged the test was discriminatory

because it asked questions not

related to the position of being a

police officer, the suit did not

include a copy of the test or

examples of the questions.

The lawsuit said the test has

taken different forms over the

years. The most recent version,

used from 2015 forward, had 100

questions. Only applicants who

scored 70 percent or higher

moved forward in the hiring

process.

The first part of the exam

tested observation skills by hav-

ing the applicant review a photo-

graph and answer 15 questions

about it. The second part had 85

questions on reading compre-

hension, “logical ordering,” writ-

ing and grammar, and data inter-

pretation.

The lawsuit alleges that the

use of the test amounts to a

“pattern or practice of discrimi-

nation” against the African

American applicants. It asks the

court to order that the county

stop using the test, make “reme-

dial relief ” to those who suffered

discrimination and adopt “ap-

propriate nondiscriminatory

measures” to correct the discrim-

ination.

Anthony Russell, president of

the Blue Guardians, said he has

long had concerns about the

application process for police

officers.

Over the years, Russell said, he

has seen the number of African

American applicants increase

but that hasn’t translated to

more minority officers being

hired.

Somewhere in the process,

black a pplicants were being elim-

inated, Russell said. He had not

suspected the test, he said, but

had asked Olszewski and Hyatt to

order an independent review of

the hiring process.

“Recruitment has done its job

in getting people to apply,” said

Russell, who is a sergeant in the

department. “The number of mi-

nority applicants unfortunately

did not result in hires.”

Russell said it’s important to

have diversity among the sworn

police officers.

“It makes the community feel

more comfortable, that’s part

one,” he said. “Part two, some-

times based on how you grew up,

where you grew up, what your

experiences are, you bring a dif-

ferent lens to the situation.”

Baltimore County Council

members seemed surprised to

learn about the lawsuit. At the

end of their public work session

Tuesday afternoon in To wson,

several council members hud-

dled behind closed doors in the

council library.

Council member Julian Jones

(D) said he was “taken aback” by

the allegations in the lawsuit.

“I’m confident that the current

administration is going to do any

and everything necessary to

make sure we’re not discriminat-

ing against people,” said Jones,

who is the council’s only African

American member.

Council member Cathy Bevins

(D) said she hadn’t yet reviewed

the lawsuit but had concerns.

“It would be disappointing to

know because we’re talking

about trying to have more diver-

sity in all of public safety, the fire

department and police depart-

ment,” she said.

Council member Wade Kach

(R) said he was “rather shocked”

and wanted to investigate the

allegations further.

“It’s important that everyone

have equal access in taking a look

at a ll of the measurements we use

to determine whether to hire

someone,” he said.

— Baltimore Sun

Phil Davis contributed to this report.

MARYLAND

U.S. accuses Baltimore County of racial bias in police hiring

The federal lawsuit

alleges that the use of

the test amounts to a

“pattern or practice of

discrimination” against

the African American

applicants.

BY ANN E. MARIMOW

Maryland’s child pornography
laws apply when the child is both
the subject and sender of sexually
explicit material, the state’s high-
est court ruled Wednesday, in a
case testing how to treat teen-
agers who voluntarily self-
produce and share their own im-
ages.
The case before the Maryland
Court of Appeals began with a
teenage girl who texted friends a
one-minute graphic video of her-
self, and it comes as law enforce-
ment officials, judges and legisla-
tors throughout the country are
struggling with how to reconcile
laws crafted before the era of
cellphone videos with evolving
technology and teen behavior.
The question for the court, as
Judge Joseph M. Getty wrote for

the majority: “Can a minor legally

engaged in consensual sexual ac-

tivity be his or her own pornogra-

pher through the act of sexting?”

The high court’s 6-to-1 ruling

upholds an earlier decision from

the state’s Court of Special Ap-

peals in finding that state law-

makers did not include excep-

tions in the law for consensual sex

or for self-produced child pornog-

raphy.

But the court also encouraged

the Maryland General Assembly

to consider changing the law.

“This case presents a unique

challenge. On the one hand, there

is no question that the State has

an overwhelming interest in pre-

venting the spread of child por-

nography,” the court said in a

35-page opinion. “On the other

hand,” the teen “albeit unwisely,

engaged in the same behavior as

many of her peers.”

Even as the court found the law

“all encompassing” to include mi-

nors, the judges said that “we

recognize that there may be com-

pelling policy reasons for treating

teenage sexting different from

child pornography” and it urged

the General Assembly to consider

such legislation.

The lone dissenter, Judge Mi-

chele D. Hotten, wrote that the

law was intended to “protect chil-

dren from exploitation and

abuse,” not to criminalize consen-

sual sex between minors.

The teen was “not being ex-

ploited by someone else,” Hotten

wrote. “The General Assembly did

not seek to subject minors who

recorded themselves in non-

exploitative sexual encounters to

prosecution.”

The case began in October

2016, when the then-16-year-old,

referred to by her initials in court

records, shared a video she made

with a three-person group text

chain — another 16-year-old girl

and a 17-year-old boy — best

friends, the court said, attending

Maurice J. McDonough High. She

expected the text would stay pri-

vate.

But the group “fell off as

friends” a few months later, ac-

cording to court records, and the

students who received the text

shared a copy with their school

resource officer from the Charles

County Sheriff’s Office.

The girl who shared the video

of herself performing a sex act on

an unidentified male was the only

teen charged, according to the

county prosecutor. Because her

case on the distribution of child

pornography was in juvenile

court, the teen never faced a man-

datory sentence or the possibility

of having to register as a sex

offender.

In May 2017, she was put on

probation, electronic monitoring

and had to undergo weekly drug

testing, according to the court’s

opinion.

On appeal in February, the

teen’s lawyer from the Maryland’s

Office of the Public Defender,

Claudia Cortese, said that the

teen’s conduct was voluntary and

legal. Letting the decision stand

against the girl would amount to

convicting h er as her own pornog-

rapher, the girl’s lawyers wrote.

Maryland Assistant Attorney

General Sarah Pritzlaff responded

in filings that the court should not

ignore the possible harm to the

teen from her shared video. Over-

turning the conviction, she wrote,

would disregard the legislature’s

interest in protecting minors and

stopping child pornography.

On a separate issue, the court

ruled Wednesday that the teen

was responsible for “displaying

obscene material” t o a minor even

though the law does not specifi-

cally list the technology she used

— a digital video file — to share

the material.

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MARYLAND

State’s top court upholds child pornography charge in video texting case

“This case presents a

unique challenge.”

Maryland County of Appeals, which

upheld a child pornography charge

against a teen two texted friends a

video of herself in 2016