Monthly Archives: January 2017

Muslim Community Center Town Hall speakers report on #MuslimBan executive order, offer toolkit to resist

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Thomas Nephew

An emergency town hall convened at the Muslim Community Center this Sunday at noon gave two speakers — Abed Ayoub of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and Khaled Bhartoum, a law professor at  University of Detroit Mercy School of Law … Continue reading →

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Activist gets Rockville PD complaint form corrected

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Thomas Nephew

After reading our report about police department transparency compliance failures in Montgomery County, activist John Appiah-Duffell decided it might as well be him to challenge the City of Rockville about its police department’s own failure.  The Rockville PD had not … Continue reading →

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BORDC/DDF, MCCRC oppose announced anti-BDS legislation on 1st, 14th Amendment grounds, circulate open letter to MD General Assembly

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Thomas Nephew

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation (BORDC/DDF) and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition sent the letter below to all members of the Maryland General Assembly yesterday. It concerns reported plans by some of those members to legislate … Continue reading →

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Many MoCo, PG police departments fail to comply with complaint process, transparency reforms

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Thomas Nephew

Our review of Montgomery County and Prince George’s County police department web sites has found widespread noncompliance with state transparency requirements, and ongoing, outright misstatements of key reforms of the police brutality complaint process — particularly of the new 366 … Continue reading →

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Legislative forum Q&A gets answers on SWAT, trial boards, profiling, immigration enforcement, surveillance

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Thomas Nephew

A legislative forum hosted by Progressive Neighbors last Sunday, January 8, at Silver Spring Civic Center yielded insights into state and county civil rights and civil liberties issues during audience questions. SWAT reporting, civilian trial board participation Thomas Nephew (MCCRC) … Continue reading →

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Jeff Sessions Would Be a Disastrous Attorney General

Posted on January 5, 2017 by sueudry

MCCRC joins with a broad coalition of civil rights and civil liberties organizations in opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General. As AG, he will be our nation’s top law enforcement official responsible for protecting the Constitutional … Continue reading →

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Police reform fight moves to counties – including ours

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Thomas Nephew

Police reform will be on the local civil rights agenda again this year — but unlike the past two years, the action will be moving from Annapolis to county seats such as Rockville.  That’s because of the passage of a … Continue reading →

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