Police Accountability

The Maryland General Assembly must pass legislation to end the practice of police policing themselves and shift power into the hands of communities. Write to your legislators and General Assembly [...]

This past Friday, March 26, 2021, the Montgomery County Police Department released body camera footage from a horrific incident in January 2020. The footage, which was nearly an hour long, [...]

Our partners at Bonimot Tzedek are asking for social workers to replace police in Montgomery County Public Schools

Crossover Day has passed over. Now it's time to assess where our bills are, and how we can bring more equity and justice to our region by the end of the General Assembly session.

HB1089 would address the demands of students, parents, educators, and administrators looking to replace armed law enforcement in school with well-funded, substantial alternatives to support the [...]

Removing school resource officers (SROs) from schools is an important way for our government to facilitate teshuvah, healing, and recovery rather than perpetuating the school to prison pipeline, [...]

The Montgomery County Board of Education and County Council both held hearings during the first week of March to hear from the public about the future of police in schools. Nearly 90 activists [...]

Since moving to Baltimore in 2011, since starting work in Baltimore in 2009, local control of the Baltimore City Police department has been an issue that those around me, neighbors and co-workers [...]

We need to keep students in school and spend those dollars on resources to help students work through their challenges. Statistics show that the arrests and incarcerations affect students of [...]

We need to pass a full repeal of the Law Enforcement Bill of Rights, and cannot allow for weakening amendments.