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Department of General Services

Bill would require minimum wage pay for Md. inmates
Dec 8, 2025

Dept. of Public Safety orders emergency transfer of inmates at Baltimore facility

Maryland DPSCS ordered an emergency transfer from MRDCC after engineers found structural risks, moving 393 incarcerated people and staff.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announces measures he is supporting to improve public safety during a news conference in Annapolis on Jan. 9, 2024. Moore signed a bill into law on May 16 to create a new statewide center to help prevent gun violence. The governor described it as the first of its kind since the White House urged states to form their own centers to better focus efforts to stop gun violence. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)
Oct 28, 2025

Moore appoints new deputy chiefs of staff in continued admin shakeup

Gov. Wes Moore announced the appointment of two new deputy chiefs of staff, continuing the shakeup among staffers and cabinet secretaries.

The Maryland State House in 2019. (Maximilian Franz / Special to The Daily Record)
Aug 5, 2025

MD officials to vote on funding for State House memorial honoring Black Revolutionary War soldiers

The Maryland Board of Public Works is expected to vote on funds for a memorial at the State House honoring African American soldiers.

301 W. Preston Street Building at State Center in Baltimore. (Maximilian Franz/The Daily Record file)
Dec 6, 2024

MD to move 620 workers from State Center as revamp planning resumes

Maryland continues to relocate employees from State Center to downtown Baltimore as officials looks to revamp a failed rebuilding project.

The 28-acre State Center campus has a convoluted history of failed redevelopment plans and litigation. (The Daily Record/File Photo)
Dec 5, 2024

District courthouses in Baltimore join list of facilities with Legionella bacteria

Two district court buildings have joined a growing list of government facilities where tests have shown levels of the Legionella bacteria.

Tufaro: Criticism of MIA relocation ‘pretty whiny’
Feb 27, 2023

Montgomery Park loses Md. Supreme Court appeal in bid for MIA’s lease

A unanimous Maryland Supreme Court has ruled against Montgomery Park in its effort to reopen the bidding for the Maryland Insurance Administration’s lease.

Tufaro: Criticism of MIA relocation ‘pretty whiny’
Jun 6, 2022

Md. high court will hear Montgomery Park’s bid for insurance administration lease

The Montgomery Park building’s back-and-forth legal battle to reopen the bidding for the Maryland Insurance Administration’s lucrative Baltimore lease will go before the state’s top court.

Tufaro: Criticism of MIA relocation ‘pretty whiny’
Mar 1, 2022

Montgomery Park loses appeal in bid for MIA’s lease

Montgomery Park has lost the latest legal battle in its back-and-forth effort to reopen the bidding for the Maryland Insurance Administration’s lease.

ACLU threatens suit over Lawyers’ Mall solicitation ban
May 3, 2018

Lawyers’ Mall solicitation ban’s fate could depend on ‘forum’ ruling

A free-speech challenge to a Maryland state agency’s ban on financial solicitations on Lawyers’ Mall could come down to whether the site – at the foot of the State House […]

ACLU threatens suit over Lawyers’ Mall solicitation ban
Mar 9, 2018

ACLU sues over Lawyers’ Mall solicitation ban

ANNAPOLIS – The ACLU of Maryland filed suit Thursday against the Department of General Services, saying DGS’s ban on financial solicitations on Lawyers’ Mall – a popular site for political […]

Md. House committee discusses changing state song
Jul 12, 2016

Hogan names new DGS secretary

Gov. Larry Hogan Tuesday announced the appointment of a new Department of General Services secretary. He didn’t have to look far to find a candidate. Ellington Churchill, Jr., 46, the deputy […]

Jul 5, 2016

Md. general services secretary resigns, replaced by deputy

ANNAPOLIS — The secretary of Maryland’s Department of General Services has resigned to take a job in the private sector. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan announced the resignation of Gail Bassette […]