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LAWSON v. BOWIE STATE

No. 119, September Term, 2010.

26 A.3d 866 (2011)

421 Md. 245

Tyrone LAWSON v. BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 16, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hillary Galloway Davis (Davis & Associates Law Offices, P.A., Towson, MD), on brief, for appellant.

Corlie McCormick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS and BARBERA, JJ.

ADKINS, J.

In this case we must determine whether whistleblower protections extend to an employee whose decision to disclose possible violations was personally motivated by his desire to "make changes to the department" in which he worked. The employee, Tyrone Lawson, was a seventeen-year veteran of the Bowie State University Police Department ("the Department") until his termination for violating the Department's chain of command policy. Specifically, Lawson had...

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