Units & Divisions
The Office of the State's Attorney is Prince George's County's primary law enforcement agency. It handles a broad range of criminal cases, ranging from minor traffic offenses to severe homicide cases. At present, State's Attorney Tara H. Jackson oversees a team of nearly 200 employees dedicated to securing justice for those affected by criminal activities.
Units & Divisions
Learn about the Units and Divisions of the State's Attorney's Office and what they do.
Conviction & Sentencing Integrity Unit
The Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office was the first in the state to create a Conviction and Sentencing Integrity Unit. The unit looks at cases where new evidence calls into question the validity of prior convictions, as well as cases where the sentence imposed appears to be excessive.
Conviction & Sentencing Integrity Unit
District Court Unit
The District Court prosecutes virtually all misdemeanor cases - approximately 30,000 criminal cases annually. These cases include drug offenses, burglaries, incarcerable traffic offenses, thefts, trespass, and assaults.
Firearms Enforcement & Narcotics Intelligence
Serves as a specialty unit focused on gun prosecutions and aggressive prosecution of opioid and other felony drug cases. We plan to pursue each case vigorously, with a particular emphasis on repeat gun offenders and fentanyl cases.
Firearms Enforcement & Narcotics Intelligence
Homicide Unit
The Homicide Unit is responsible for investigating, charging, and presenting all homicides that occur in the county at trial.
Investigative Unit
The investigative unit assists the State’s Attorney’s office by conducting interviews of witness and defendants. Investigators have full police powers and able to make arrest.
Major Crimes Unit
The Major Crimes Unit (MCU) is responsible for prosecuting violent felonies including non-domestic attempted murders, serious assaults, carjackings, robberies, burglaries, and motor vehicle cases.
Post Trial Procedure Unit
The Post Sentencing Unit of The Office of the State’s Attorney’s Office is responsible for representing the State in and responding to: Post Conviction petitions and motions to re-open Post Conviction proceedings, as well as appearing at all hearings for the same.
Special Prosecutions & Public Integrity Unit
The State’s Attorney’s Office is responsible for bringing theft, mortgage fraud, undue influence and financial exploitation of vulnerable adults, credit card misuse, and identity theft cases to trial in Prince George’s County Maryland District and Circuit Courts. In addition, the Public Integrity Unit (PIU) was created in 2018 to assure the community that public officials in Prince George’s County are being held to the highest ethical standards.
Special Victim and Family Violence Unit
This Special Victim’s Unit (SVU) is responsible for the prosecution of all physical and sexual child abuse cases, intimate partner violence cases, sexual assault cases, child exploitation cases, child pornography cases, human trafficking cases, and vulnerable adult abuse cases that occur in the County.
Special Victim and Family Violence Unit
Strategic Investigations Unit
The Strategic Investigations Unit (“SIU”) is tasked with prosecuting three categories of offenders: (1) repeat violent offenders who have three or more prior convictions for violent felonies, (2) individuals or groups of individuals who commit “string” offenses consisting of three or more violent felonies, and (3) individuals or groups of individuals who commit felonies at the direction of, in furtherance of, or for the benefit of a criminal gang.
Victim and Witness Unit
The Victim Witness Unit provides victims and witnesses with information, support, and advocacy services, and their families while involved in the criminal justice system.
Youth Justice Unit
The Youth Justice Division is responsible for the resolution of delinquent charges filed against youth below the age of eighteen (18) years of age.