The council also lays out proposed amendments to Baltimore’s charter that would end the practice of awarding contracts to the lowest bidder and allow lawmakers to “create discrete funds to benefit specific programs.”

Report by Inspector General Cumming, who referred her findings to law enforcement, says it shows the importance of “direct access to city records and emails” that the Brandon Scott administration is trying to restrict.

The Scott administration’s new restrictions on OIG access to documents “would have limited this investigation,” Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming points out.