The Maryland Senate confirmed Lt. Col. Roland Butler on Friday to be the first Black superintendent of the Maryland State Police, a department under a federal discrimination probe.
The Senate voted 43-4 to confirm Gov. Wes Moore’s appointee, who came under questioning largely because he has worked at the department for nearly three decades and held a significant leadership post in the agency under scrutiny.
While Moore has stood strongly behind Butler’s appointment, several senators were not convinced he was the right person to bring needed reforms. Sen. Pam Beidle, who is the chair of the Senate’s Executive Nominations Committee and voted to confirm Butler, emphasized that accountability measures were being built into the state budget to gauge how well the new superintendent meets goals he outlined to the committee.
“The governor has committed that if things do not improve in the department and morale is not better that there will be a replacement,” Beidle said. During his confirmation hearing Monday, Butler said he was committed to moving the agency into a new era.
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