Baltimore (WBFF) — Less than two months remain in this year’s Maryland legislative session, and lawmakers are moving forward with legislation to keep juvenile sex offenders from attending public schools in person.
“This amendment is probably the most important part of this bill right now,” said Delegate Kathy Szeliga, a Republican representing Baltimore County, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last Thursday. “It will close the juvenile sex offender loophole.”
For more than 10 hours, the committee heard testimony concerning Maryland’s Juvenile Justice system, a main topic during this year’s 90-day legislative session. Throughout the hearing, multiple pieces of Juvenile Justice legislation were debated. About eight hours into the hearing, Delegate Szeliga introduced an amendment...
The prior time they closed a lingering loophole
ReplyDeleteIt took them over thirty long years of lawgiving
By the time they argue and agree upon this one
The perpetrators will be in assisted senior living.
Loopholes exist in order to reduce
ReplyDeleteThe tedious tasks of the attorneys
And to get of the hook their clients
In order to maximize their moneys.
It seems that they left a loophole again in the law:
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