Residents cite mistrust of BPD and the technology’s use elsewhere to assist ICE. But a majority of the Board of Estimates, including Mayor Scott, vote to approve the $1.46 million contract.

With the Falls Road gate left open, private haulers have been dumping clandestinely at night and Baltimore city trucks have been dumping there, too. How this could go on for months remains “a mystery.”

Chips from an I-95 overpass in Baltimore County, as well as the Orleans Street Viaduct in the city, test positive for lead, says Blue Water Baltimore; Meanwhile the state says it won’t test Baltimore’s second lead-tainted bridge, now leaving it to the city

There it sits, easily visible from Falls Road, amid 311 complaints, environmental concerns and irate emails to top Scott administration officials – plus questions as to why Baltimore City trucks, as well as private haulers, are dumping there.