Rosewood supporters plan to resist closure

Family members of about 60 remaining residents at the state-run Rosewood Center said they will resist Gov. Martin O?Malley?s plan to close the facility for people who are developmentally disabled next year.

Opposition to the plan to shutter the center by July 2009 is gaining momentum, said family members who met Sunday afternoon on the Owings Mills campus in Baltimore County, which has been the subject of reports of abuse and neglect. O?Malley announced in January his plan to transfer most of the center?s remaining 156 residents to group homes in the community, alarming some family members who said the move would be a “death warrant.”