The Maryland Judiciary spent $10,350 to take officer names out of a public database, then put them back in, over the last several days.
WUSA9 was the only news organization to inquire about the cost of the changes.
Earlier this month, members of the media in Maryland noticed officer names had disappeared from Maryland Case Search, the online database that allows the public to access case information outside of courthouses.
Officer names are critical to tracking cases and following law enforcement officers' work on the job.
The change sparked an immediate backlash, with reporters and law enforcement agencies condemning the move, according to media reports and social media posts.
The Maryland Court of Appeals held an emergency meeting March 6. According to a statement posted to the Maryland judiciary's webpage, Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera during the meeting called deleting officer names "an error, an honest mistake," and the unintended consequence of a rule change made in 2017.
"The buck stops here," she said. "We are accountable. We will address this error."
The Maryland Court of Appeals voted unanimously to adopt an amendment to restore the officer names to the database.
A spokesman for the judiciary told WUSA9 the agency was able to correct the database one day ahead of schedule. He added the courts' budget for fiscal year 2018 is $558 million.
