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Subcommittee approves substitute for HB 1568 letting Frederick County police act in county-owned Winchester buildings
Summary
The Courts of Justice Subcommittee on Criminal Law voted unanimously to report HB 1568 as amended, granting Frederick County law-enforcement jurisdiction over offenses in county-owned or -occupied buildings inside the City of Winchester within one mile of the county line.
The Courts of Justice Subcommittee on Criminal Law voted to report HB 1568, a substitute amendment that grants Frederick County law-enforcement officers jurisdiction over offenses committed in buildings owned or occupied by Frederick County located within one mile of the City of Winchester’s limits.
The substitute, offered by the bill’s patron, Delegate Wiley, narrows an earlier draft that would have covered “any crime anywhere” in the city. "This substitute quite…
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