In: BOE, Colleges, Hate / Bias Incidents, Hate / Bias Incidents, Incident Response, Local Government, Maryland, MCPS, Montgomery County Police Department, Public Safety, Safety, School

May 7, 2024 Background In January 2024, we posted the initial Part 1 which featured a very detailed series of graphs and charts showing how anti-Jewish Hate/Bias incidents in Montgomery County Maryland have increased over the timeframe of July 2022 to October 2024 (inclusive) as compared to Hate/Bias incidents againstContinue Reading

In: BOE, CEOs, County Council, Incident Response, Local Government, MCPS, Public Safety, Safety, SROs

April 29, 2024 – By Dana Noga – Photos from MCPD post. With the Board of Education Primary Election heating up, questions regarding School Resource Officers (SROs), Community Engagement Officers (CEOs), and security in schools have come to the forefront. MCPS graduate, activist and concerned parent Dana Noga writes aboutContinue Reading

In: 2024 Elections, Board Of Elections, BOE, CEOs, Drugs and Alcohol, Elections, Free Events, Hate / Bias Incidents, Incident Response, Interviews, Local Government, MCPS, Political Interviews, Restorative Justice, Safety, SROs, Testing, Voting

April 18, 2024 We hosted the our first ever in person Moderately MOCO event on April 15 – a Board of Education candidate forum which you can watch here or click below. It is the month leading up to the May 14 Primary Election and you can see a collectionContinue Reading

In: BOE, Community Feedback, County Council, Education & Culture, Government, Local Government, MCPS, Montgomery County Police Department, Policing, Public Funding, Public Safety, Safety, School Funding, Special Education, Transportation

April 8th, 2024 – This testimony was given to the County Council on the FY2025 operating budget Hello my name is Jason Makstein and I run the blog Moderately MOCO but today I am testifying as a community advocate about various items in the operating budgets. My focus will beContinue Reading