Sam Cogen
Democratic · MD · Sheriff of Baltimore City
Sam Cogen is the Democratic sheriff of Baltimore City. He was elected in 2022 after a 25-year career in the sheriff's office, and he sought another term in the 2026 Democratic primary.
Track record
Immigration
· 2 records
Sam Cogen announced that ICE agents would not be allowed past Baltimore City courthouse security to make arrests unless they presented a federal judicial warrant.
January 15, 2026Against
Source: baltimoresun.com · researched July 13, 2026
Sam Cogen publicly condemned an ICE detention inside a Baltimore courthouse and opened a criminal investigation into how a state employee invited the federal agents inside, saying courthouse immigration enforcement undermines public trust and access to justice.
June 30, 2025Against
Source: wbaltv.com · researched July 13, 2026
Public Safety and Crime Control
· 2 records
Sam Cogen's first labor-contract negotiation as sheriff produced a ratified three-year agreement with 17% total salary increases, two-deputy staffing for evictions, new career ranks, and removal of the disputed law-enforcement bonus-pay clause.
February 10, 2026For
Source: baltimorefishbowl.com · researched July 13, 2026
Sam Cogen described the newly established Neighborhood Services Unit's role enforcing alcohol laws, addressing underage and illegal alcohol sales, responding to 311 complaints, and investigating problem establishments.
May 30, 2025For
Source: wbal.com · researched July 13, 2026
Data Privacy
· 1 record
As sheriff-elect, Sam Cogen opposed the outgoing administration's consultant extension and prospective Axon body-camera purchase, calling the technology costly and proprietary and questioning whether public funds were being used properly.
November 2, 2022For
Source: baltimorebrew.com · researched July 13, 2026
Civil Rights
· 3 records
Sam Cogen announced that ICE agents would not be allowed past Baltimore City courthouse security to make arrests unless they presented a federal judicial warrant.
January 15, 2026For
Source: baltimoresun.com · researched July 13, 2026
Sam Cogen publicly condemned an ICE detention inside a Baltimore courthouse and opened a criminal investigation into how a state employee invited the federal agents inside, saying courthouse immigration enforcement undermines public trust and access to justice.
June 30, 2025For
Source: wbaltv.com · researched July 13, 2026
When signing Maryland's Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act, Governor Wes Moore credited Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen's work on the measure and presented him with the first ceremonial pen.
April 26, 2024For
Source: wtop.com · researched July 13, 2026
General
· 3 records
Governor Wes Moore, U.S. Representative Kweisi Mfume, and Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown endorsed Sam Cogen in the 2026 Baltimore sheriff primary.
June 24, 2026
Source: baltimoremagazine.com · researched July 13, 2026
Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry and nine City Council members announced their endorsements of Sam Cogen in the 2022 sheriff primary.
July 6, 2022
Source: wbaltv.com · researched July 13, 2026
Samuel Cogen signed Baltimore City Council testimony as president of the South Baltimore Neighborhood Association supporting rezoning at 2 East Wells Street for new ground-floor commercial tenants.
November 4, 2020
Source: baltimore.legistar.com · researched July 13, 2026
Integrity and Ethics
· 4 records
A federal court dismissed nine of Sabrina Tapp-Harper's ten employment counts against Sheriff Sam Cogen but allowed her Title VII retaliation count to proceed to discovery, emphasizing that its pleading-stage ruling was not a finding that Cogen retaliated.
August 21, 2025
Source: app.midpage.ai · researched July 13, 2026
Baltimore's inspector general reported that Sam Cogen's detail-pay order triggered a Workday code he said he did not know was misconfigured, causing $2.238 million in overpayments; Cogen did not notify the city or labor commissioner about his order.
February 12, 2025
Source: baltimorebrew.com · researched July 13, 2026
As sheriff-elect, Sam Cogen opposed the outgoing administration's consultant extension and prospective Axon body-camera purchase, calling the technology costly and proprietary and questioning whether public funds were being used properly.
November 2, 2022
Source: baltimorebrew.com · researched July 13, 2026
A federal court dismissed the remaining malicious-prosecution, defamation, and false-light claims against Samuel Cogen arising from charging applications he signed in the Freddie Gray prosecutions, finding that the pleadings did not plausibly show lack of probable cause, malice, or gross negligence and that immunity applied.
August 23, 2018
Source: app.midpage.ai · researched July 13, 2026
Elections
- Sheriff · June 23, 2026 · Baltimore city, Maryland · incumbent
Profile last researched July 13, 2026.