Anonymous ID: 94a84f July 8, 2020, 2:11 p.m. No.9897547   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7575

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP): "Court proceedings to determine criminal sanity for a man who pleaded guilty to killing five people at Maryland newspaper have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Jarrod Ramos' pre-trial hearings have been moved to August and a sanity trial was moved to December in the Capital Gazette murder case, news outlets reported. Additional dates are reserved in September for pre-trial motions if needed. This is just the latest delay after repeated postponements.

Ramos pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible by reason of insanity in October to all 23 counts against him for killing John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen and Rebecca Smith in the 2018 newsroom rampage at the Capital Gazette."

 

wboc.com/story/42344559/sanity-trial-in-newspaper-shooting-postponed-amid-pandemic

Anonymous ID: 94a84f July 8, 2020, 2:25 p.m. No.9897683   🗄️.is đź”—kun

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD: "A bill to broaden and strengthen legal protections for Montgomery County's LGBTQ population is set to be introduced by Councilmember Evan Glass on Tuesday. The bill would explicitly ban LGBTQ+ discrimination in healthcare facilities, nursing homes, and personal care facilities, as well as expand current protections to include gender expression and HIV status.

 

Under the new law, it would be illegal to:

-Deny admission to a facility, transfers or refuses to transfer the individual within a facility or to another facility, or discharges or evicts an individual from a facility.

-Deny a request by individuals to share a room in a facility.

-If rooms are assigned by gender, assigns, reassigns, or refusal to assign a room to a transgender individual other than in accordance with the individual's gender identity, unless at the individual’s request.

-Prohibits an individual from using, or harasses an individual who seeks to use or does use, a restroom available to other individuals of the same gender identity, regardless of whether the individual is making a gender transition or appears to be gender-nonconforming;

-Willfully and repeatedly use an individual’s name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the name or pronouns.

-Deny an individual the right to wear or be dressed in clothing, accessories, or cosmetics that are allowed for any other individual.

-Restrict n individual’s right to associate with other individuals, including the right to consensual sexual relations, unless the restriction uniformly applies to all individuals in a nondiscriminatory manner.

-Deny or restrict medical or nonmedical care.

-Provides medical or nonmedical care in a manner that, to a similarly situated reasonable individual unduly demeans the individual’s dignity or causes avoidable discomfort."

 

wjla.com/news/local/lgbtq-rights-expand-montgomery-county