A federal judge has appointed Kenneth Thompson, an attorney at the Baltimore-based law firm Venable, as monitor of the sweeping consent decree mandating local police reforms between Baltimore and the U.S. Department of Justice, reports the Baltimore Sun .
U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar made the appointment at the request of the two parties after a public selection process, under which Bredar said he was "confident that the public's input was heard."


