Support for the Montgomery County curfew bill is in doubt as a council vote looms.
Updated, Dec 2. 9:30 a.m.: A vote on the curfew bill may be indefinitely postponed. Two councilmembers have indicated that the Montgomery County Council could vote to table the curfew bill during the next full council session, choosing not to decide on the legislation, according to a Gazette report. An alternative to the curfew bill, a loitering ban proposed by Councilmember Phil Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg, may also be tabled. “They are going to table it on Tuesday,” Council President Valerie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring said in the report. Councilmember Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Potomac, who is likely to take over as council president on Tuesday, said that he would not table the legislation himself, but that another …
Andrews opposes measure, Berliner skeptical and Rice wants to prevent racial profiling.
Proposed teen curfew legislation goes before the Montgomery County Council's Public Safety Committee at a Thursday morning work session, the next step for a controversial measure proposed to combat teenage violence. The committee's chairman, Councilmember Phil Andrews, opposes the bill. "It's not justified based on what has occurred in Montgomery County," Andrews (D-Dist. 3) said. "A curfew is only justified in an emergency situation. We don't have an emergency in Montgomery County. ... A number of council members are undecided. It’s a knee-jerk reaction to one serious but isolated gang fight in downtown Silver Spring." County Executive Isiah Leggett proposed the bill in mid-July on behalf of the Montgomery County Police after a highly …
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12:32 pm on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
In case there was a misinterpretation that I have changed my 'stance' from my 9/12 comment regarding parents being or not being held responsible.... My comment 11/21 about 'bonding and locking' parents & teens in same cell involved those teens & young adults (and I use the word adult loosely; street thugs is better terminology) actually 'convicted' of 'criminal behavior' as this 'new game'/mass … more ›
Jeff Hawkins
3:13 pm on Friday, December 2, 2011
This is a good thing that it's going down................. more ›