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...

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...