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Public Safety and Correctional Services/287
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES
Frank A. Hall, Secretary of Public Safety and
Calvin A. Lightfoot, Deputy Secretary
Emory A. Plitt, Jr., Principal Counsel
One Investment Place, Suite 500
Towson 21204 Telephone: 321-3686
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services was created in 1970 (Chapter 401, Acts of
1970), but its origins date to the early nineteenth century, when the the Maryland Penitentiary opened in
1811 (Resolution No. 32, Acts of 1804). The Maryland House of Correction was authorized in 1874 and
opened in 1879 (Chapter 233, Acts of 1874). The Maryland State Police, however, were not organized
until 1935 (Chapter 303, Acts of 1935). The Maryland Civil Defense Agency, although not established
until 1949, was predated by the Maryland Council of Defense, 1917-1920, 1941-1945 (Chapter 24, Acts
of Special Session 1917; Chapter 567, Acts of 1941; Chapter 602, Acts of 1943; Chapter 563, Acts of
1949).
The Department includes the following agencies, boards, and commissions: State Emergency
Management and Civil Defense Agency; Emergency Management Advisory Council; Emergency
Number Systems Board; Division of Correction; State Use Industries Advisory Committee; Advisory
Board for Correction, Parole and Probation; Commission on Correctional Standards; Correctional
Training Commission; Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; Explosives Advisory Council; State Fire
Prevention Commission; State Fire Marshal; Handgun Permit Review Board; Inmate Grievance
Commission; Division of Parole and Probation; Maryland Parole Commission; Patuxent Institution;
Board of Patuxent Institution; Maryland State Police; Police Training Commission; and Sundry Claims
Board.
The Department administers the Data Center for public safety, law enforcement, and correctional
agencies within the State. The Data Center provides data processing services to the State Police, Division
of Correction, Division of Parole and Probation, Patuxent Institution, State Fire Marshal, and a number
of federal and local criminal justice agencies. It provides computer terminal and computer-to-computer
data transmission between these agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Motor Vehicle
Administration, and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.
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STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
AND CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY
Edward Murray, Director
State Emergency Operating Center
Reisterstown Road and Sudbrook Lane
Pikesville 21208 Telephone: 486-4422
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Chairperson: Major General Warren D. Hodges,
Adjutant General of Maryland
Wayne A. Cawley, Jr., Secretary of Agriculture;
Vacancy, Secretary of Economic and Community
Development; Adele Wilzack, Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene; Ruth Massinga,
Secretary of Human Resources; Torrey C.
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Brown, Secretary of Natural Resources; Frank
A. Hall, Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services; Constance Lieder,
Secretary of State Planning; William K.
Hellmann, Secretary of Transportation; Dr. R
Adams Cowley, Director, Maryland Institute for
Emergency Medical Services Systems; John W.
Hoglund, Director, Fire and Rescue Institute;
Dr. David W. Hornbeck, State Superintendent of
Schools; Edward Murray, Director, State
Emergency Management and Civil Defense
Agency; Daniel H. Mahan, Jr., Maryland Civil
Defense and Disaster Services Association; Robert
W. O'Connor, Maryland Municipal League;
Capt. William D. Poole, Maryland Association of
Counties; Charles W. Riley, Maryland Fire-
Rescue Education and Training Commission:
Rocco J. Gabriele, Fire Marshal; Elliott
Robinson, American Red Cross; Thomas Tharp,
Slate Firemen's Association; Col. Wilbert T.
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