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Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett wants to know why the County Council hasn’t made a decision on his proposed youth curfew yet.
In a memo to County Council President Valerie Ervin, D-Silver Spring, Leggett urged her to put the youth curfew he proposed in July to a vote before the council enters the December recess.
The controversial measure would prohibit youth under the age of 18 from being in a public space after 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday nights and midnight Friday and Saturday nights.
Leggett blamed the anti-loitering bill proposed by Councilman Phil Andrews, D-Gaithersburg/Rockville and the curfew’s most vocal opponent, for the delay.
That legislation has been pitched as an alternative to the curfew. However, Leggett said it is just a ploy.
“It’s time to recognize the introduction of the loitering bill for what it really is — a stall tactic intended to confuse the debate on the curfew bill and delay action on the curfew bill,” Leggett wrote. “Even if the loitering bill never goes anywhere and withers on the vine at council, it is nonetheless serving its intended purpose: to deny council members who support the curfew bill their rightful opportunity to vote on it.”
