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Joint Republican Caucus Public Safety Agenda
Maryland’s budget deficit looms large as the major issue of the 2025 Legislative Session, and rightly so. While the members of the Joint Republican Caucus are ready to offer solutions to our budget challenges and fight back against tax and fee increases, this will not be our sole focus this session. As we have done in the past, the members of the House and Senate Minority Caucuses will offer common-sense legislation that will make our communities safer.
Read MoreMaryland lags on monitoring prescription narcotics, sheriff tells O’Malley at forum
Maryland is lagging behind neighbors Delaware and Virginia when it comes to monitoring the sale of some prescription narcotics, and Gov. Martin O’Malley told his final pre-inaugural forum that he finds that unacceptable.
At the Public Safety and Security Forum Wednesday in Annapolis, Washington County Sheriff Doug Mullendorf told O’Malley and the room of about 300 people about Maryland’s inadequacy in monitoring the sales of oxycontin and oxycodone, which are Schedule II narcotics, when compared with neighboring states. Mullendorf said he has noticed the number of people addicted to these drugs growing in past years. The other law enforcement officials in the room agreed.
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