For years, courts across the United States and Maryland recognized that children must be protected from sexual predators and harmful and unnatural behaviors of child sex offenders. In Booksellers v. Virginia (1988), the Supreme Court held that booksellers may be criminally prosecuted for allowing obscene sexual material easily accessible to children "youth" as they called it. Obscene movies with explicit vulgarity and adult content have been identified since 1960s and the nee

Somerset County Public Schools had its policy 500-19 open for public comment for months now, and the only three objections to the policy came from the politically-charged Maryland State Educators Association (MSEA), the ACLU of Maryland, and the Maryland Association of School Librarians. That's right, not one Somerset County citizen. The Maryland State Educators Association has already lost its constitutional argument against parents before the United States Supreme Court in

Most Prohibit Use Of Cell Phones By Students During The School Day During the 2026 Maryland General Assembly, legislators passed the Maryland Phone Free Schools Act, or SB 928, which requires that every Maryland school district implement a policy by the 2027–28 school year prohibiting student use of personal electronic communication devices during the entire academic school day. That means no access from bell to bell, no access to social media platforms during the school day,