Overview
- Dontae Odom pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of misconduct in office and three counts of unauthorized computer access, with sentencing set for Nov. 19.
- Prosecutors said he used the FBI’s National Crime Information Center and the Maryland Criminal Justice Dashboard to look up seven people for personal reasons.
- Those searches targeted his wife, romantic partners, relatives of romantic partners, a hotel employee and a woman who worked in his office building.
- Officials said none of the database queries were tied to legitimate law enforcement duties.
- Odom admitted violating a December 2024 no-contact order by meeting an individual in March and recording the conversation, and he had resigned from the sheriff’s office in August before charges were filed.