Hopkins Press executive director Barbara Kline Pope shared these plans in an email to the publisher’s authors, as well as a summary of its rationale.

Chief among the reasons for this move was to increase the exposure of the work published by Hopkins Press, which Pope said would be “the best way to continue to engage with readers.”

She also said the publisher is concerned about AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude potentially scraping pirated content, and believes licensing work published by Hopkins is an effective way to ensure that work is used in a way that supports its authors and the press.

“Licensing our books to AI platforms helps authors’ work remain visible and influential as readers increasingly use generative AI for research and discovery,” Pope wrote in a statement shared with The Baltimore Sun.

“By partnering directly with these platforms, we hope to establish guardrails on how content is used and ensure that authors receive proper attribution.”

In her message, Pope added that authors published by Hopkins Press could opt out of licensing their work to be used by AI models, giving authors until Aug. 31 to do so.

According to its website, Hopkins Press publishes 110 journals and 150 new books each year, and maintains a backlist of more than 3,000 titles.

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A spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department told The Baltimore Sun that officers were patrolling the neighborhood in West Baltimore at around 6:30 p.m., when they found a woman who was unresponsive on the 2500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.

The officers called medics, who arrived soon thereafter to treat the woman, but she was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy will be performed by the medical examiner’s office to determine the cause of death.

Even though overdoses across Baltimore remain on the decline, the Penn North neighborhood continues to be hit hard by the opioid crisis.

In July alone, there have been two mass overdose events in the area, one July 10 that hospitalized 27 people and another last Friday that hospitalized five.

None of those victims were reported to have experienced fatal overdoses.

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The university failed to follow formal procurement procedures in more than 4,000 purchases from five vendors using a corporate card, totaling about $2.3 million between January 2021 and December 2023, according to the Maryland Office of Legislative Audits.

Many of the purchases were made by university employees and were not properly documented or reviewed by supervisors, as required by university policy.

In more than 6,000 instances, the audit also determined that university employees’ timesheets were not signed or approved by supervisors between January 2021 and January 2024. These cases involved more than 1,000 university employees.

The audit also counted more than 5,000 open research grants as of June 2024, totaling more than $760 million. For many of the grants, the audit said the university did not ensure that the funds were used in accordance with the grant agreements.

Additional “cybersecurity-related findings” were identified in the audit but were not disclosed in the public-facing document, per Maryland statute.

The University System of Maryland agreed with the OLA’s findings in its response to the audit and said it would implement the office’s recommendations by January.

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According to the IID’s release, the delay is due to the footage’s “technical complexity and volume of officer recordings involved,” and the division said it needs more time to compile and share the footage with involved parties before its public release.

Earlier this month, the division identified 10 officers linked to the death of 31-year-old Dontae Melton Jr., of Baltimore.

Investigators say Melton approached a stopped police cruiser at the intersection of West Franklin Street and North Franklintown Road on the evening of June 24. The officers in the cruiser believed he was experiencing a behavioral health crisis and restrained him before calling for medics.

After about an hour of waiting with no emergency response, the officers transported Melton to a hospital when he became unresponsive. He was taken in for treatment but pronounced dead in the early hours of the following morning.

The IID continues to investigate the matter and urges the public to contact the division at 410-576-7070 or by email at IID@oag.state.md.us.

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Northwest District officers responded to the 2100 block of Windsor Gardens Lane for reports of a shooting, the statement said, and found an unidentified man with a gunshot wound to his body.

The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment, where he is listed in stable condition.

BPD asked those with information about the investigation to contact Northwest District shooting detectives at 410-396-2466, or via the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-7LOCKUP.

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A citizen flagged down patrolling officers at 2:48 p.m. to report a shooting, police said. Officers entered a home on the 1500 block of Olmstead Street in Curtis Bay, where they found a 64-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound.

The victim was transported to a nearby hospital, but despite initial treatment, he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Homicide detectives are handling the investigation and urge anyone with information to call 410-396-2100. Those who wish to remain anonymous can contact the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-7LOCKUP or submit a tip through the Metro Crime Stoppers of Maryland website.

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The victim was identified as 30-year-old Elias Alvarado, who was incarcerated at North Branch Correctional Institution.

Just last year, six incarcerated men died at North Branch Correctional Institution, according to a database of in-custody deaths from the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy.

Alvarado’s death was the first reported at the facility this year.

In a statement released Saturday, state police said that investigators saw footage of Alvarado standing in a hallway on the tier of the facility where he lived before officers at the facility found him lying on the ground unresponsive.

Investigators also confirmed that they have identified another inmate as a suspect in Alvarado’s death, but will not release that individual’s name pending investigation.

The statement confirmed that state police investigators and technicians from its Forensic Sciences Division responded to the facility after officers notified them of the death.

Once an investigation is complete, investigators will present their findings to the State’s Attorney’s Office in Allegany County for review.

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Detectives found the bodies of 83-year-old Sun Lim and 69-year-old Im Kim after responding to the 100 block of Oliver Heights Road on March 24.

Later that day, Northern Lancaster Regional Police in Pennsylvania apprehended 31-year-old Kevin Ahn after his sister in Penn Township, Lancaster County, called police to report a suspicious incident.

According to Pennsylvania police, Ahn showed up at his estranged sister’s home, driving his mother’s 2022 Toyota RAV4 and “acting weird.” When his sister and her husband confronted him, they saw “an unresponsive person positioned across the rear seat and floor of the vehicle, partially covered in household goods,” police said.

Ahn fled on foot but was soon detained in nearby Manheim Borough. Authorities later identified the woman in the car as his mother, 61-year-old Hyun Ahn of Owings Mills. The Lancaster County coroner determined her death was a homicide caused by strangulation and a traumatic brain injury.

He was charged in Pennsylvania with a single count of abusing a corpse and held without bail at the Lancaster County Prison. At the time, Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger told The Sun that charges in Maryland were forthcoming but not yet publicized while Ahn remained in Pennsylvania custody. The Lancaster County District Attorney’s office dropped the abuse of corpse charge so he could be extradited to Maryland to face murder charges.

On Friday, Baltimore County detectives obtained and executed a warrant for Ahn’s arrest in the killings of Lim and Kim. He was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder in their deaths, police said.

Police said Ahn is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center without bond.

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According to a release from the Sheriff’s Department on Friday, Deputy Sheriff Kinat arrived at the ICON Residences at the Rotunda on West 40th Street, where she met the property manager to issue an eviction to a resident of the building.

When Kinat and the property manager arrived at the residence, knocked on the door and announced themselves, no one answered. Kinat then asked the property manager to open the door.

Inside, they found a man, along with what they estimated to be 50 to 60 large clear bags containing what appeared to be cannabis in plain view.

Kinat detained the man, called for backup deputies and secured a search and seizure warrant from a judge to search the apartment. The subsequent search uncovered about 65 pounds of suspected cannabis, as well as nearly $47,000 in cash.

After the search, deputies charged the man with criminal possession of marijuana in excess of the legal limit.

“If he had answered and paid the amount owed to the property manager right there on scene, the law requires that the deputy would have had to cancel the eviction,” said Baltimore City Sheriff Sam Cogen.

The release states the tenant owed nearly $2,900 in unpaid rent and fees.

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“As Penn North continues to face the trauma of the opioid epidemic, we will continue to be here to provide support,” said Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott at a Friday afternoon press conference with first responders on North Avenue.

Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace said that the 911 communications center received calls for service at about 8:55 a.m., in reference to possible drug overdoses in Penn North, with reports of people passed out on the street.

First responders arrived and transported five people exhibiting overdose symptoms to nearby hospitals. Wallace clarified that these individuals’ conditions are listed as serious, but not critical.

He stated that two people refused treatment but were in stable condition.

Blair Adams, a spokesperson for the city’s health department, told The Baltimore Sun Thursday that overdoses were “once again at a comparable rate with what they were” in the Penn North area before the mass overdose.

City data shows, though, that 911 calls for overdoses have been at above-average levels across Baltimore since last Thursday. Before the July 10 mass overdose, the weekly average was 64 calls; there had been 86 calls from July 11 to 15.

Overall, overdose deaths and 911 calls across Baltimore are down this year, after a significant drop last year.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said that several officers administered Narcan — a medication used to reduce overdoses — to victims on Friday.

He said officers are working in the area to locate who is selling the drugs and bringing them in, but he wasn’t able to share specifics about the ongoing investigation.

Scott called Friday’s incident a stark reminder that the city’s fight against the opioid epidemic is far from over. He urged people to step in when they see people suffering from overdoses around the city, saying lives can be saved by intervening or calling first responders.

“That person is a human,” he said. “That person is a Baltimorean.”

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