Baltimore County’s national search comes as Baltimore City is finishing up its own process for hiring a new police commissioner — one that many have criticized for lacking transparency. Mayor Catherine Pugh has nominated Fort Worth, Texas, police chief Joel Fitzgerald for the job. He still needs to be confirmed by City Council, members of which have expressed concern about the lack of information they’ve been provided about Fitzgerald’s background. For example, two city councilmen said last week that Fitzgerald’s background report that they received was “heavily redacted.”