Repeal Sanctuary Status in Howard County, maryland!
UPDATE: Howard County Board of Elections Verifies Petition Signatures.
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CB 63-2020 ON the November 2022 Ballot! Let Citizens Decide!
On December 10th, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball signed CB-63, inappropriately named The Liberty Act, which prevents County employees from asking about the immigration status of residents, prohibits cooperation among law enforcement agencies, and requiring that certain information related to citizenship be kept confidential in Howard County.
Sanctuary Status News In Howard County

Local Business, Community Leaders File Final Petitions To Challenge Howard County’s New Sanctuary County Laws Via Referendum
Filing represents more than 11,000 signatures submitted in support of November 2022 ballot The Citizens For a Strong and Safe Howard County - a group comprised of local business and community leaders organized to challenge Howard County’s new sanctuary county...

Local Business, Community Leaders File Petitions To Challenge Howard County’s New Sanctuary County Laws
The Citizens For a Strong and Safe Howard County – a group comprised of local business and community leaders organized to challenge Howard County’s new sanctuary county laws – checked off its first major milestone today, filing 6,500 petition signatures with the County Board of Elections to put CB 63-2020 on the Howard County ballot in November 2022.

Howard council passes bill prohibiting county agencies from cooperating with ICE, Ball signs into law
By Ana Faguy | Baltimore Sun Media Legislation that prohibits Howard County agencies from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement passed in a 4-1 vote by the Council Council on Monday night. The Liberty Act, introduced last month by council member...

Howard Council Member Introduces Legislation To Prohibit County Agencies From Cooperating With ICE
By Ana Faguy | Baltimore Sun Media Howard County Council member Opel Jones introduced legislation earlier this month to prohibit county agencies from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During a public hearing Monday evening, the County Council...

Sanctuary Bill Would Endanger Maryland’s Schoolchildren
For most of the past year, Montgomery County, Maryland has prohibited local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Now, lawmakers in the Maryland Senate are trying to impose that "sanctuary" policy statewide. Their proposed bill, SB 901,...

Sanctuary Bills in Maryland Faced a Surprise Foe: Legal Immigrants
By SABRINA TAVERNISE MAY 8, 2017 (This article was published in May 2017 by the New York Times.) ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — When lawmakers in Howard County, Md., a stretch of suburbia between Washington and Baltimore, declared their intention to make the county a sanctuary...
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