States Control: Maryland

Citizen revolt forces vote on coed showers

A recently passed Maryland county law that critics say allows men and women to mix in restrooms and locker rooms has been put on hold until it goes before voters this fall.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 7, 2008

District lessons teach ‘erotic’ sex techniques

A parents group is asking a judge to halt an explicit sex-education curriculum
implemented by a Maryland school board that teaches homosexuality is innate and provides depictions of “erotic” sex techniques.
Source: WorldNetDaily, January 19, 2008

Coed locker rooms given green light

Coed locker rooms could be a reality now that a new statute to allow people to “choose a gender” has been approved in Maryland.
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 14, 2007

City passes camera law

The Police Department, the Department of Planning and Community Development, and the Department of Public Works will decide whether a new residential, commercial or industrial development must install cameras at “strategic locations” before a development permit is issued.
Source: The Baltimore Sun (online), October 7, 2007

People born homosexual, say local school officials

The Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland has accomplished what science and medicine have been unable to confirm, simply declaring in its newly approved school curriculum for children that some babies are born homosexual.
Source: WorldNetDaily, June 25, 2007

Maryland Begins Taxing Residents for Flushing

“People are coming in here saying, ‘I have a two-hole outhouse, I’m not going to pay you.’ ” Peuler said. “We have a saying around here: ‘You pee, you poo, you pay.’ The three P’s, you know?”
Source: Fox News (online), December 12, 2005

Costs may be rising for security cameras

The law, passed in March [Baltimore County], requires shopping center owners with at least 15 stores to install cameras that continuously monitor at least 75 percent of a center’s parking lots. A proposed amendment could further expand the law to require stores of 100,000 square feet or more to install cameras, well.

Source: Towson Times (online), August 10, 2005

Smile Kids, Md. Schools Plan to Expand Video Camera Surveillance

School systems throughout metropolitan Baltimore are embracing the latest in surveillance technology, adding digital cameras that can zoom-in, detect motion and even see in the dark.

Source: WTOP News, January 6, 2005

Students struggle to set up Republican club

Students at a Maryland high school known for its environmental activism have encountered several setbacks in starting up a young Republicans’ club at the school.

Source: Washington Times (online), May 9, 2004

Annapolis lawmaker puts toy guns in cross hairs

An Annapolis lawmaker wants to enact a law that would ban most toy guns in the city and fine parents whose children are caught playing with the toys outdoors.

Source: Washington Times (online), June 18, 2003