Montgomery County Health officer says his authority to enforce safety is unclear

...“When the governor asked us to rescind our order … the state promised they would be providing guidelines for local jurisdictions in terms of what schools needed to do,” Gayles said during a meeting with the Montgomery County Council on Monday. “It was framed that, as long as schools are consistent with [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and state guidelines, they’d be able to reopen. But we don’t have any state guidelines.”

Spokespeople for Hogan and the Maryland Department of Health could not be reached for comment on Monday. Previously, a spokeswoman for Hogan told Bethesda Beat that Gayles still has the authority to close a nonpublic school found to not be complying with social distancing requirements...