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Maryland overhauled standards for private security. Bouncers and other guards are exempt.

Security guards employed by health care and gambling facilities are no longer subject to a package of licensing requirements that took effect earlier this year. Here, a Johns Hopkins public safety guard recently walked around the hospital’s perimeter. (Surya Vaidy/Staff)
Security guards employed by health care and gambling facilities are no longer subject to a package of licensing requirements that took effect earlier this year. Here, a Johns Hopkins public safety guard recently walked around the hospital’s perimeter. (Surya Vaidy/Staff)
The Baltimore Sun's Dan Belson (Kevin Richardson/Sun Staff)
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Responding to a spate of fatal shootings by security guards, lawmakers passed new standards for the profession, but some are excluded.

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