Montgomery County Councilmember Marc Elrich to speak at Safe Silver Spring legislative forum on Thursday, Jan. 7

Montgomery County Maryland sent this bulletin at 01/06/2016 02:38 PM EST

  

Montgomery County Councilmember Marc Elrich, who chairs the Council’s Public Safety Committee, County Executive Ike Leggett and Court Watch Montgomery will be the chief sponsors at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, as Safe Silver Spring focuses its annual legislative forum on gun safety. The meeting will be held in the Spring Room of the Silver Spring Civic Building in downtown Silver Spring.

 

Montgomery Councilmember Marc Elrich

will speak at Safe Silver Spring

legislative forum on gun safety and

public safety measures on Thursday, Jan. 7

Other speakers include Councilmember Tom Hucker,

State Senator Jamie Raskin, Delegate Kathleen Dumais

 

ROCKVILLE, Md., January 6, 2016—Montgomery County Councilmember Marc Elrich, who chairs the Council’s Public Safety Committee, County Executive Ike Leggett and Court Watch Montgomery will be the chief sponsors at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, as Safe Silver Spring focuses its annual legislative forum on gun safety. The meeting will be held in the Spring Room of the Silver Spring Civic Building in downtown Silver Spring.

 

The meeting will focus on gun safety legislative proposals, although measures addressing domestic violence, strengthening DUI laws, police body cameras, pedestrian safety and sex trafficking also will be on the agenda. The forum will address public safety measures and criminal justice reforms that will be under consideration by the Maryland General Assembly session that begins in January and by the Montgomery County Council in the coming year. 

 

Key speakers at the forum will include Councilmembers Elrich and Tom Hucker, who also is a member of the Council’s Public Safety Committee; State Senator Jamie Raskin, who is a member of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee; State Delegate Kathleen Dumais, who is vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee; Deena Hausner of the House of Ruth of Maryland; Sara Love of the ACLU of Maryland; Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence; and Vinny DeMarco of Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence.  

 

“I look forward to meeting with the public, advocacy groups, and our state legislators to discuss how we can all work together to make our community a safer place to live,” said Councilmember Elrich. “These past few weeks have brought fresh and painful reminders that there is much work to be done, from strengthening our DUI laws to protect the public and our first responders, to proposing changes to gun safety laws, closing loopholes to protect victims of domestic violence, improving pedestrian safety and restoring voting rights to those who have served their time. The time to act together is now.”

 

More information is available at http://tinyurl.com/wordsstopguns .

 

 

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