Gordon C. Kamka, Secretary

Edwin R. Tully, Deputy Secretary/or Public Safety

J. Brown Hardy, Deputy Secretary/or Correctional Services

Emory A. Plitt, Jr., Assistant Attorney General

One Investment Place

Suite 500

Towson 21204 Telephone: 321-3686

The following agencies, boards, and commissions are a part of the Department: The State Civil De-
fense and Disaster Preparedness Agency, Civil Defense and Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council,
Emergency Resources Priority Board, Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, State Fire Prevention
Commission, State Fire Marshal, Police Training Commission, Maryland State Police, Division of Cor-
rection, Division of Parole and Probation, Parole Commission, Advisory Board for Correction, Parole
and Probation, Patuxent Institution, Board of Patuxent Institution, Sundry Claims Board, the Correc-
tional Training Commission, the Inmate Grievance Commission, the Handgun Permit Review Board,
and the Commission on Correctional Standards.

The Department administers the Data Center for public safety, law enforcement, and correctional
agencies within the State. The Data Center currently provides data processing services to the State Po-
lice, Division of Correction, Division of Parole and Probation, Patuxent Institution, State Fire Mar-
shal, and local agencies. It provides computer terminal and computer-to-computer data transmission
between Maryland Criminal Justice agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Motor Ve-
hicle Administration, Baltimore City Police Department, the National Law Enforcement Telecommuni-
cations System, and the Washington, D.C., area law enforcement computer system furnishing law en-
forcement and other data stored in these systems to the inquiring agency (Code 1957, Art. 41, secs.
204-204F).