Sun coverage: Investigation of Kevin Clark

Former chief's lawsuit dismissed

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge dismissed yesterday a $60 million lawsuit filed by former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark against the city and Gov. Martin O'Malley, who fired Clark when he was mayor.

Court rejects ex-police chief's bid for reinstatement

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Clark will not get his job back, a city judge has ruled.

Ex-commissioner seeks lost job

Former police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark said yesterday he wanted to reclaim Baltimore's top law enforcement job until his contract officially expires in June, while also continuing to press his wrongful termination lawsuit against the city for his 2004 firing by then-Mayor Martin O'Malley.

Gregory Kane: At last, rule of law gets equal time

Former Baltimore police Commissioner Kevin Clark was fired on Nov. 10, 2004, when then-Mayor Martin O'Malley said that domestic violence allegations against Clark, while unsubstantiated, "distracted" the imported New Yorker from effectively doing his job.

Court: Clark's firing wrong

Baltimore erred in firing former police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark in 2004, the state's highest court ruled yesterday -- advancing a case that could reduce the city's control over the Police Department.

Ex-police chief, 2 city deputies sue O'Malley in firings

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark and two of his deputies have filed a $20 million federal lawsuit against Gov. Martin O'Malley, former City Solicitor Ralph Tyler and four police officers, alleging that their firings nearly three years ago by then-Mayor O'Malley were racially driven.

Ex-city chief of police loses suit

Former Police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark lost his lawsuit against Mayor Martin O'Malley yesterday, derailing the fired commander's attempt to collect $120 million and return to his job.

Baltimore

City Council approves Hamm as police chief

The Baltimore City Council voted unanimously yesterday to approve the nomination of Acting Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm to be the city's permanent police chief.

City repays Sun $11,000 spent to get Clark report

The city of Baltimore has agreed to reimburse The Sun $11,000 for expenses and legal fees incurred as the newspaper successfully fought to obtain an investigative report into the domestic dispute between former Police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark and his fiancee.

Clark asks for repeal of severance

Ousted police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark wants $120 million from the city that fired him. What he doesn't want, at least for the time being, is the $75,000 that Baltimore's Board of Estimates gave him last week.

Report details efforts by police to get laptop

The team of detectives told the burglary suspect that they just wanted "one piece of important info, that's all."

Officers' suit alleges racial bias in city police force

Twenty-one African-American current and former city police officers filed a federal class-action lawsuit yesterday, alleging long-running and rampant discrimination within the Baltimore Police Department.

The split of a mayor and his commissioner

May 15, 2004

Excerpts of lawsuit

Unedited excerpts from former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin P. Clark's lawsuit against Mayor Martin O'Malley:

O'Malley fires Baltimore police commissioner

Mayor Martin O'Malley fired his police commissioner yesterday morning, abruptly ending his public support of Kevin P. Clark and asserting that the domestic violence allegations made against the commissioner, although unsubstantiated, were proving a distraction to fighting crime.