Top Stories of 2024: Hate Crimes on the Rise
Bias incidents, hate crimes and graffiti continued to plague Montgomery County during 2024. The county has a data website that logs the numerous incidents and which minority group they are… Read More
Reporting
MCPS Introduces New Reporting Procedures for Hate Incidents
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is revising how administrators should respond to hate-bias incidents involving students this month. This comes in response to concerns over an exponential increase of reported… Read More
Police Strive to Update Demographic Data on Suspects, Victims
The Montgomery County Police Department complies with new federal standards on racial and ethnic data collection but needs more money and staffing to truly collect, interpret and compare that data.… Read More
Concejo Refuerza Requisitos de Informes de las Cámaras Corporales de la Policía
Tras la protesta pública de un incidente de enero de 2020 en el que se puede ver en video a dos agentes de la policía del condado de Montgomery reprendiendo… Read More
Council Strengthens Review and Reporting Requirements for Police Body Cameras
Following the public outcry from a January 2020 incident in which two Montgomery County Police officers can be seen on video berating and verbally abusing a five year old boy… Read More